Date 6 de maio de 2021
Duration 01:05:37
Location Zoom
Organization Observatório da Emigração
In this lecture given by Professor Thomas Faist, it is presented how the new social issue finds its expression in movements of people in search of a better life or flight from unsustainable social, political, economic and ecological conditions, and that it is transnational because of the links that exist across the borders of national states. It also addresses both the social structure and politics of social inequalities, and the importance of research into the transnational social issue.
About the speaker
Thomas Faist is a professor of Transnational Sociology, Migration and Development at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and directs the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD). Thomas Faist has contributed to ongoing debates on citizenship, transnationalism, migration, and social policy in Europe and beyond. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Transnationalized Social Question: Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century (2019), Disentangling Migration and Climate Change (2016), Transnational Migration (2013), as well as Citizenship: Discourse, Theory and Transnational Prospects (2007), and Dual Citizenship in Europe (2007). Thomas Faist is a Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
About the moderator
João Teixeira Lopes holds a degree in Sociology from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, and a PhD in Sociology of Culture and Education. He was an effective member of the Observatório das Catividades Culturais between 1996 and 1998 and integrated the coordinating team of the Relatório das Políticas Culturais Nacionais. He was a programmer for Porto European Capital of Culture 2001, in charge of the population involvement area and member of the initial team that drafted the candidacy project presented to the Council of Europe. He was Scientific Coordinator of the Institute of Sociology at FLUP between 2002 and 2010, and director of the Revista Sociologia between 2009 and 2013. He was President of the Portuguese Sociological Association between July 2016 and 2021. He chaired the Department of Sociology at FLUP between 2011 and February 2019. He coordinates, since May 2020, the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. He has 23 published books in the fields of sociology of culture, city, youth, and education, as well as museology and territorial studies.
