ESREA Network on Migration, Ethnicity, Racism and Xenophobia

Convenors:
Linda Morrice
Lecturer in Continuing Education
Centre for Continuing Education
University of Sussex,
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QQ
UK
telephone: +44 (0)1273 872584
e-mail: l.m.morrice@sussex.ac.uk

Joke Vandenabeele
Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Participation
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Belgium
e-mail: Joke.Vandenabeele@ped.kuleuven.be

Dr Simon Warren
Lecturer in Critical Policy Studies
The Institute for Lifelong Learning
School of Education
The University of Sheffield
196-198 West Street
Sheffield
S1 4ET
telephone: +44 (0)114 222 7002
e-mail: s.a.warren@shef.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/till/staff/profiles/warren.html

Aim/themes of the network
The network aims to create a space to explore the articulation of adult education with the themes of migration, ethnicity and xenophobia. In the process we hope to encourage democratic and critical dialogue between socially committed adult education scholars seeking to develop theoretical and methodological resources that can contribute to the formation of a ‘solidarity from below’ in the rapidly changing context of Europe and adult education.

The network will explore these issues through a series of research questions:

* How do processes and practices of adult education contribute to:
* Living in and with difference
* Understanding processes of belonging and community formation
* Reinventing democratic citizenship in the context of multicultural societies?
* What is the contribution of adult education to different kinds of policy response to difference in terms of :
* Integration and assimilation
* Minority rights
* Otherness?
* What are the ways methodologically to understand the experiences of migration, ethnicity, racism and xenophobia.

Frequency of meetings
There will be a network seminar/conference every two years.

As well as providing an opportunity to share research at the biannual seminar/conference, we will be seeking to generate collaborative research.