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SUMMARY:Transnational fears about marginalized young people at the borders
  of the nation - Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough\, University of Cambridge and Dr Ca
 roline Oliver\, University of Oxford
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DESCRIPTION:Mobile\, transnational narratives of moral panic have infiltra
 ted and transformed youth cultural activities\, while simultaneously affec
 ting multicultural policies in relation to ideas about the nation\, race\,
  and migration. The agents of this growing\, urban threat are seen to be w
 hat former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called ‘the enemy wi
 thin’\, disaffected young people who are characteristically from ethnic 
 or religious minorities and often economically disadvantaged. In the midst
  of current global political and economic insecurities\, we can witness th
 e role of what Etienne Balibar and Chris Rumford (2010) refer to as border
  anxiety in constituting the ideological borders of the nation. These repr
 esentations of young people can be read as a form of border work where leg
 itimacy and citizenship are established not only through the use of legal 
 principles such as residency and human rights\, but through invisible cult
 ural forces which appear to uphold ‘equality’ for all. \nDrawing upon 
 comparative research conducted in Canada and Australia and with support fr
 om the CCE\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the D
 avid Lam Chair\, Dillabough and Oliver will draw on\, for example\, the wo
 rk of Sara Ahmed and Etienne Balibar to respond to the problematics associ
 ated with disadvantaged youth\, border anxiety and transnational thinking 
 on multicultural policy in the 21st century. They will address the followi
 ng questions:\n*  How is border anxiety manifested in different ‘social 
 texts’ of the nation\, including in the media\, educational curricula\, 
 and oral histories of youth? \n*  How might we envision the role that bord
 ers – as both a geographical reality and in the form of a national imagi
 nary – play in producing particular notions of young people in the conte
 xt of moral norms related to multicultural policies in the 21st century ac
 ross time and place? \n*  How might national borders work as a form of pow
 er to either transform or accommodate the dominant narratives of economica
 lly disadvantaged youth in research\, as well as the public record\, acros
 s time and place? \n*  How might we translate these oral histories and acc
 ounts of border politics expressed by young people and other members of ur
 ban communities into practical material for real world politics (visual an
 ime and cartoons\, e-books and blogs\, and surrealist time-lapse documenta
 ries) for teachers and public policy makers?*\n
LOCATION:Room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hi
 lls Road\, Cambridge
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