*Openforum 4 (Po**ž**arevac) *
*Mobility as a Form of Integration*
*Topic*
The aim of this OpenForum is to discuss and to identify the potential benefits of migration. How does migration affect the personal life of people? How does it influence their communities both at their place of origin (home community) and their place of being (host community) regarding social, economic and political developments and culture?
The European approach to market integration tends to depoliticize labour mobility as just one out of four aspects of the Common Market, expressed in the freedoms of movement of capital, goods, services and people. In this perspective problems arising from labour mobility are a matter of personal risk management. The embeddedness in a larger social conflict is denied. This may contribute to a persistent or even increasing economic and cultural peripherization of comparatively underdeveloped European regions. Netted in an increasing number of double citizenships and plural loyalities migrating individuals are faced with the false alternatives of nationalism and depoliticization. Questions of political recognition of migrants and plurifold forms of European solidarity need to be put on the agenda.
This OpenForum is part of the Art Intervention project „The return of the Gastarbajters" implemented in the Eastern Serbian town of Požarevac. Adapted from German language, "Gastarbajter" has been a well-known term for working migrants seen as a temporal supplement for the national workforce. As they tend to transform into permanent residents with special relations to their countries of origin, Art Intervention invites artists and anthropologists to explore how long-term processes of intra-European migration impinge on the local community.
All people present – both participants to the complete Art Intervention or attending only the two-day OpenForum workshop – will be asked to answer the following five questions in advance which will be later discussed at the OpenForum:
1. What can individuals „learn" by moving around?
2. What are the advantages of living as as "foreigner"?
3. What are the benefits of Gastarbajters for both home and host communities?
4. Do Gastarbajter communities present certain internationally comparable characterics?
5. How can we in Europe make better use of mobility?
Local residents in Požarevac will also be asked to answer these questions. All the answers collected will be used by the moderating team to structure the debate.
*OpenForum 4 (Po**ž**arevac) *
*Mobility as a Form of Integration*
*PROGRAMME *
*Friday, July 25, 2008 – From the Gastarbajters*
18:00 The situation of guest workers in Europe Neda Maletić, State secretary of The Serbian Ministry of Diaspora
20:00 Dinner
*Saturday, July 26, 2008 – Benefits of Migration*
10:00 City Tour
12:00 Session 1
„What can individuals „learn" by moving around?"
14:00 Lunch
15:30 Session 2
„What are the advantages of living as as "foreigner"?
„What are the benefits of Gastarbajters for both home and host communities? "
19:00 Students articles
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Belgrade University
20:30 Dinner
*Sunday, July 27, 2008 - Mobility as a Two Way Road*
10:00 Session 3
Can inter-natational characterics be found in Gastarbajter communities?
How can we in Europe make better use of mobility?
14:00 Lunch and end of the OpenForum
Noa Treister
Council Member
Citizens of Europe
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