22-23.04 Intersections of tourism and migration

Fot. Harald Schaller

Serdecznie zapraszamy na konferencję międzynarodową

We have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the international conference:

Intersections of tourism and migration

Gdańsk, Poland, 22-23 April 2016

Conference organizers: University of Gdańsk and University of Iceland

Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk, Bażyńskiego 4, Gdańsk, room C213-214

Programme

April 22, 2016 (Friday)

Opening of the Conference

12.30.-14.00 Tourism, Migration, Environment: Interlocked/Interconnected

Chairs: Anna Karlsdóttir

Barbara Tołłoczko: Perception of everyday objects: from foreign wonders to ordinary necessities

Anna Dłużewska, Maciej Dłużewski: Cultural ecosystem services in tourism – case of Iceland

Katarzyna Negacz: Sustainable Encounters: Comparative Analysis of Shark Tourism

15.00-16.00 Presentation of the Book “Mobility to the Edges of Europe: The Case of Iceland and Poland” (ed. by Dorota Rancew-Sikora & Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, published in Warsaw by Scholar in 2016) [1 h]

Chairs: Dorota Rancew-Sikora & Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir

Discussants: Małgorzata Zielińska & Łukasz Bukowiecki

The book contents:

Dorota Rancew-Sikora, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir: Introduction: Blurring boundaries in mobility studies

Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Kristín Loftsdóttir: The tourist and the migrant worker: Different perceptions of mobility in Iceland

Anna Karlsdóttir, Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson: Tourists as migrants/migrants as entrepreneurs—the agency of the visitor’s eye

Anna Wojtyńska: Becoming a tourist in the home country: Polish migrants visiting home

Dorota Rancew-Sikora: Storytelling of Iceland: Creating imaginations of place on the basis of reading literary translations

Agata Bachórz: Disgusting shark meat and the taste of North: Icelandic food in the”mouth” of Polish tourists and migrants

Anna Horolets: Migrants’ experiences of nature. Post-2004 Polish migrants in the West Midlands, UK

Karolina Ciechorska-Kulesza: Genius loci and social activity. The case of Polish immigrants

Harald Schaller: Tour guides in nature-based tourism: Perceptions of nature and governance of protected areas, the case of Skaftafell at the Vatnajökull National Park in Reykjavik and the Tricity

Magdalena Gajewska: About horses and tourism. Uniqueness of Icelandic Horsens constructed for touristic pre-narration

Małgorzata Irek: Theorizing the movement of people in an era of exploded mobility

16.15-18.15 Travelling from Poland to Iceland - and Beyond

Chairs: Anna Wojtyńska & Anna Horolets

Monika Nowicka: Leisure practices in migration context. Case of Polish immigrants in Reykjavik

Marek Pawlak: Polish migration to Iceland: strategies of muddling through the aftermath of economic crisis

Magdalena Żadkowska: The change of work-life-balance strategies and work and leisure practices on the example of Polish migrants in Norway

Hanna Janta: Rethinking the Tourism and Migration Nexus – a Search for Home

April 23, 2016 (Saturday)

 9.30-11.30 Going First Class? Privileged Mobility – Life Styles and Life Choices

Chairs: Agata Bachórz & Magdalena Gajewska

Katarzyna Wolanik Boström: Highly skilled mobility and tourism as intertwined practices – the case of Swedish doctors working for international help organisations.

Maja Biernacka: The British in Spain. Between tourism and lifestyle migration

Martina Bofulin: After migration tourism? Chinese traversing mobility categories in Europe

Czesław Adamiak: Local policy and second home owners in Poland, Finland and Canada

11.45 -12.45 Keynote Lecture

Natalia Bloch: Migrants, refugees, and tourists. The highly mobile world of the low-budget tourism sector in India

12.45-14.15 Classifying Mobile Subjects from Above and from Below

Chairs: Harald Schaller & Karolina Ciechorska-Kulesza

Mateusz Pietryka: Mobility as an exclusive privilege. State of exception at the European migration routes

Adam Konopka: Who is a refugee? The 2015 migration crisis in Polish right-wing discourse

Maciej Dłużewski, Karolina Sobczak: Migrations from arid zones – significance of environmental restrictionsin global human displacement

Closing of the Conference

The conference is a part of the project carried out by the University of Gdańsk (Poland) and the University of Iceland within the framework of the Scholarship and Training Fund: „Leisure practices and perception of nature. Polish tourists and migrants in Iceland” 2014-2016. The project was supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA, and Norway Grants and was co-financed by Polish funds.