Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below an invitation to attend workshops on Creating the Cosmopolitan City: Manchester Migrants Old and New.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Creating the Cosmopolitan City: Manchester Migrants Old and New
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) invites you to attend its two upcoming workshops for the series

Creating the Cosmopolitan City: Manchester Migrants Old and New, to be held at the CUBE Gallery on Wed 22 April and Wed 27 May.

These workshops have been developed in order to challenge the view that immigrants and refugees must be integrated into Manchester.

Instead, these workshops take the perspective that it is immigrants and refugees that have integrated Manchester into the world. By examining these topics we argue that in the past and present immigrants and refugees have been central in the building of Manchester into an urban society that is linked to the rest of the world. That is to say, immigrants and refugees have and do connect Manchester globally through their contributions to its industry, business, arts, culture, and daily interactions within urban spaces.

To the extent that Manchester can claim to be cosmopolitan (open to the world), it is because of these contributions from immigrants and refugees.

Creating the Cosmopolitan City is supported by the EU Commission, the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) and the Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN).

For more information and to register, please visit:

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/migrants/index.html

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