Invitation: Workshop – Ancestral Citizenship in Motion: Migration and Politics of Extraterritorial Belonging

The ACE Project Team is pleased to invite contributions for their upcoming workshop, “Ancestral Citizenship in Motion: Migration and Politics of Extraterritorial Belonging,” which will take place at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University (The Hague) as part of a two-day event (October 13 and 14, 2025) bringing together researchers, practitioners, and civil society actors. This event is a part of the Ancestral Citizenship in Europe project.

The workshop explores how ancestral ties — real, imagined, or legally/bureaucratically constructed — are mobilized to access citizenship across different world regions, and how these processes intersect with broader issues of migration governance, mobility justice, and belonging. We are particularly interested in empirically grounded and theoretically engaging contributions that examine racialized, gendered, and intergenerational dynamics, and that interact with debates on dual/multiple citizenship and the regulation of national imaginaries/boundaries through ancestral claims. Selected papers will receive detailed feedback during the workshop and will form the basis for a special issue proposal to be submitted shortly after the event.

Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, along with a short biographical note, to saparova@iss.nl by June 15, 2025.

For more details on the workshop themes, questions of interest, and submission guidelines, please see the full call for papers here: https://ace.hypotheses.org/1123.