Events and Seminars
| Event | : | The Double-Absence Despair, Displacement, and Hope in Migration |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 05/12/2025 - 07/12/2025 |
| Duration | : | 3 Days |
| Extra Info | : | Across continents and centuries, people have always moved—pushed by danger such as war or natural catastrophe, pulled by promise for a better life, or stirred by an inner call to widen their horizons. Yet for many migrants the journey is shadowed by what French psychoanalyst Abdelmalek Sayad named the double-absence: leaving one place but never fully arriving in the next. A piece of home is lost, while a part of the new land remains out of reach. Long after the borders are crossed, yearning and fragmented identity keep travelling within. In our postcolonial, hyper-connected age, migration has taken on fresh intensity. Where once European white powers imposed themselves on darker nations, we now witness a counter-flow: peoples of colour entering white-majority societies—yet doing so not as conquerors but as under-resourced underdogs. Modern passports, walls and visa regimes turn ancient human movement into a high-stakes test of belonging. |
| Organised By | : | PCCA - Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities |
| Web Link | : | https://p-cca.org/othering-conferences/ |