Encounters. ETMU is an open community. Etmu provides opportunities for coming together and sharing urgent, research-based, critical and subversive knowledge. It brings together researchers from different disciplines, institutions, and career stages– for instance at the yearly ETMU Conference. Anyone can become an ETMU member and have access to the ETMU mailing list.
Transdisciplinary. ETMU supports and disseminates high-quality, innovative, open-access, and critical understanding of issues of migration, belonging, geo-politics, modernity-/coloniality. ETMU does so by supporting the functioning of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research and making research accessible through the ETMU blog.
MUltiplicity. ETMU strives to be an ally for minoritized groups within academia and in society to create space for conversations and dialogue, amplifying marginalized voices and forms of knowledges– for instance through the ETMU award.
Taustaa
ETMU ry on perustettu kesäkuussa 2003. Suomen Akatemian Syreeni-tutkimusohjelma (2001–2003) toi yhteen etnisten suhteiden ja kansainvälisen muuttoliikkeen tutkijoita. Syreenin pohjalta nousi tarve perustaa tieteellinen seura edistämään alan tutkimusta Suomessa. Toiminnan suunnittelu sai alkunsa Helsingissä 2002 järjestetyssä Nordic Migration Research -konferenssissa Annika Forsanderin johdolla. Seuran perustamiskokous pidettiin 2.6.2003 Helsingissä Tieteiden talolla.