GLOREA

CENTRE FOR GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIES AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Proposal to create a research centre for PhD and Postdoc researchers, focusing on ethnographic studies of migration and mobility in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific. The Centre will be the core component of a specially created five year, then permanent, Research Professorship at Aarhus University. Projects at the Centre will be generated with external funding for two areas, crucial for exploring the human dimensions of globalisation and regionalisation, and which grow out of the recent research of the coordinating DIrector (Adrian Favell): on migration and mobility at the East-West, Balkan and Mediterranean borders of Europe, in comparative regional perspective with Latin American-US migration and the Asia Pacific; and on flows and mobility of highly skilled, creative professionals between hub cities in Europe and East Asia. PhD and Postdoc researchers, who will be recruited internationally, will receive comprehensive methods training in quantitative and qualitative techniques, as well as specialist training as ethnographers. The IRG will enable the return of an established European researcher who has spent 7 years as an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project was set up to create a research centre at Denmark's Aarhus University for PhD and postdoctoral researchers. The focus is on ethnographic studies of migration and mobility in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The 'Centre for global and regional ethnographies at Aarhus University' (GLOREA) project aimed at establishing the centre as a core component of an initial five-year research professorship. Pegged for enabling research into the ethnography of global and regional migration and mobility, the professorship covers two broad areas. The first concerns new forms of migration and mobility in Europe, European borders and the management of migration through a comparative regional perspective. The second focuses on transnational mobility and entrepreneurship in creative industries and creative cities, again in comparative regional contexts, albeit with a focus on east Asia.

PhD and postdoctoral research students, recruited internationally, receive support and training in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as specialist training as ethnographers. An additional aim is to create the conditions for bringing back an established European researcher from the United States.

Integration in Europe has been achieved with a high degree of success by securing a position as full professor at a prestigious social sciences institution in France. The Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (IRG) has clearly contributed to being able to retain a high profile researcher in Europe and support the integration phase for the two different hosts.

A wide range of international research, dissemination activities, and funding as well as recruitment drives built up GLOREA as a small but dynamic research centre. Since the project commenced, the centre has secured funding through the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) 'The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-Border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens'(EUCROSS) initiative. The centre also successfully supported a bid for two years of postdoctoral funding from the Danish humanities board (FKK).

Work in the centre's two areas of focus forms a fundamental base for exploring the human dimensions of globalisation and regionalisation. Ongoing achievements inspired by the establishment of GLOREA thus stand to contribute significantly to ethnographic research.

Knowledge transfer to both host organisations, Aarhus University in Denmark and Sciences Po in France, has been very successful. It continues in both organisations beyond the IRG funding period through networks and staffing arrangements including a collaborations and PhD supervision established by the GLOREA consortium.