(Dis)locations: Migration, Displacement, and Racial Justice Project
This initiative brings together scholars, students, and practitioners
This newly launched signature research project out of ISGRJ-Newark, led by Campus Director Mayte Green-Mercado, brings together scholars, students, and practitioners to investigate questions of migration, displacement, and race across time and space by hosting lectures, symposia, conferences, and workshops. Staying true to the mission of Rutgers-Newark as an anchor institution that is at once in Newark and of Newark, we engage with these pressing issues inside the classroom and by establishing dialogues and partnering with communities around us.
Migration, Displacement, and the Arts: A Sawyer Seminar Series Event
The Sawyer Seminar Series at Rutgers University-Newark presented Migration, Displacement, and the Arts on November 16, 2022. The event was co-organized by Mayte Green-Mercado, Associate Professor of History and Campus Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice in Newark, Kim DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Tim Raphael, Professor of Arts, Culture, and Media.
As a launching first co-sponsored event for the (Dis)locations: Migration, Displacement, and Racial Justice Project, the event brought together scholars and performers to examine the intersections between migration and the arts to consider questions about the role of music, dance, and performance in articulating displaced identities in urban migrations.
Scholarship on migration and displacement focuses mostly on the conditions that force people to leave their places of origin or the challenges that people face during their departure or arrival. In this sense, academic research on migration tends to reproduce particular frameworks shared across the disciplines of demography, sociology, political science, economics, and history. Relatively absent from these discussions are artistic expressions. The event also considered how aesthetic vocabularies are maintained and repurposed in adopted homelands, and how expressive culture impacts processes and perceptions of belonging and alienation in both origin and host contexts.
Photo credit: LalearCreative
Stay tuned for more programming, events and initiatives from the (Dis)locations: Migration, Displacement, and Racial Justice Project. Coming in 2023.
Stay tuned for more programming, events and initiatives from the (Dis)locations: Migration, Displacement, and Racial Justice Project. Coming in 2023.