A kaleidoscopic lens on migrant social lives
Diverse meaning-making resources and self-positioning in diaspora contexts
Migration is not only a geographic movement, but also an ongoing process of self-refining, belonging negotiation and social boundary-making. This hybrid workshop, organised by the Empowering Language group, will highlight how migrants make use of and are shaped by meaning-making resources and how these intersect with language.
Event details of
A kaleidoscopic lens on migrant social lives
- Date
- 10 June 2026
- Location
- Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
- Room
- Kartini room
Migrants draw on a wide range of meaning-making resources, including language, clothing, food, music, dance, religion, and others, to build communities, construct identities and navigate life in different receiving societies, fostering complex and vibrant migrant social worlds. These resources are not isolated; rather, they are deeply interconnected and mutually constitutive.
By bringing together presentations on diverse social-cultural practices, this workshop aims to highlight how these resources intersect with language and present how migrants make use of them and how they shape migrants' everyday lived experiences within the diasporic contexts.
