Call for papers : International Workshop : Representing Humanitarianism / Représenter l’Humanitarisme
Marseille 23-24 September 2015 –MUCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
Since January 2014 the Emborders project, based at the Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology – LAMES (MMSH/Aix -Marseille University) has looked critically at humanitarian interventions and policies addressing victims of sex trafficking and sexual minority asylum seekers in in the UK and France. The project examines the workings of ‘sexual humanitarianism’, a concept created by Nicola Mai to understand and represent the humanitarian governance of undesirable migrants that are framed as vulnerable according to their sexual orientation and/or behaviour.