Memory on the move: How do young people negotiate remembrance under different conditions of mobility

How is memory shaped by mobility, precocity and intersubjectivity? Based on two research studies, Malte Gembus will reflect on how youth, memory and mobility intersect and influence each other.

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Memory on the move: How do young people negotiate remembrance under different conditions of mobility

23 Jan 2025, 12:00 – 13:00

G03
55-59 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0NU
United Kingdom

Young people in the Guatemalan diaspora in Southern Mexico grow up in between different temporalities of mobility, with their parents/grandparents’ generation having fled during the civil war, as well while their older peers frequently migrating to the United States. Unaccompanied young people in the UK are equally engaged in processes of remembrance that are shaped by mobility, precarity and intersubjectivity.

Malte will explore how young people engage with the past in ways that shape their lives in the present as well as their aspirations for the future. He will pay particular attention to memory that is being negotiated in the context of mobility.

He will explore memory as a social act of co-production with others as well as being shaped by the context it occurs in.

This event will be particularly useful for anthropologists, sociologists, and refugee and migration scholars.

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52Hertz via Pixabay.

Dr Malte Gembus

Research Fellow

IOE

Malte is a social anthropologist with a background in Community and Youth Work. His research explores the overlaps between academia and practice especially regarding the study of mobility and memory. He is currently a Research Fellow on a project exploring how people make lives under the conditions of No Recourse to Public Funds.