The re-enchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world: Ideology and life strategies in middle-class migration to Europe and beyond

The Research Centre for Social Sciences (Centre for Excellence, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany) co-organised the workshop ‘The Re-enchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Hardening World: Ideology and Life strategies in Middle-Class Migration to Europe and Beyond’. The workshop took place on 26 November 2021, when global migration seemed to be gradually emerging from a lockdown. The initiators, Pál Nyíri and Biao Xiang, invited scholars whose work sheds light on the various forms and interpretations of middle-class migration. By the time we are finishing the editing of the workshop’s materials, we are in the middle of a major war in Europe and escalation of military tensions in the Asia Pacific. The questions that the workshop aimed to tackle have only become more urgent.