Special issue launch: "Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy"

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Join us for the launch of a special issue of Migration & Society edited by Camilla Ida Ravnbøl, Anja Simonsen and Trine Mygind Korsby!

The special issue, "Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy", sheds light on transnational migrants’ engagement with informal urban economies worldwide. The issue will be presented by all three editors, followed by a discussion with Professor Emeritus Karen Fog Olwig and Associate Professor Kasper Tang Vangkilde. The event will finish off with a reception.

The special issue launch is open to everyone and takes place at the Ethnographic Exploratory at CSS (Room 4.1.12) from 15:00 to 17:00 on October 10th, 2023.

Programme
15:00 - 15:20: Welcome and presentation of the special issue by Camilla Ida Ravnbøl, Anja Simonsen and Trine Mygind Korsby
15:20 - 16:00: Discussion with Professor Emeritus Karen Fog Olwig and Associate Professor Kasper Tang Vangkilde
16:00 - 16:30: Open Q&A and debate
16:30 - 17:00: Reception

The special issue is open access and can be found here.

Supported by projects:

  • "After Money What is Debt: Indebted Urban Poor Households in Emerging Cashless Economies,” Independent Research Fund Denmark [no. 8018-00065B]
  • CRIMTANG (grant agreement #725194)