Crises and conjunctures in migration geography 3
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 3/1/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
Theme: Ethnonationalism and Exclusion Around the World
Sponsor Group(s):
Political Geography Specialty Group
, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Mostafa Henaway
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Chairs(s):
Mostafa Henaway, Concordia University
; Jessie Stein, CUNY Graduate Center
Description:
Organizers: Jessie Stein (CUNY Graduate Center, jstein1@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Mostafa Henaway (Concordia University, mhenaway@gmail.com)
The emergence of the figure of the ‘essential’ worker, and the pandemic’s hardening of borders on the one hand with border porosity for (some) migrant labor on the other, has harkened shifts in the discourses and politics of migration in many places around the world. This current conjuncture can be understood as one in a series of instances where crisis has reconfigured the relationship between migrants, civil society, and various tiers of the state, with major implications for the terms of social and political belonging.
A conjuncture for Hall is “a period when different social, political, economic and ideological contradictions that are at work in society and have given it a specific and distinctive shape come together, producing a crisis of some kind” (Hall & Massey, 2010). These periods are also geographies which form crucial points of study, not only because they may present opportunities and structural challenges to migrant justice, but also for what they reveal of how political bodies make and see themselves– with implications for the lives and life possibilities of citizens and non-citizens alike (Ngai, 2014).
Following migration scholars who have reframed the supposed crises of refugees and migrants to crises of racial capitalism (De Genova, 2016), of border violence (Jones, 2021), of state sovereignty (Brown, 2017), and of postcolonial nationalism (Sharma, 2020), this paper session invites contributions that engage with the political, political-economic, social, cultural, environmental, structures engaged in geographies where the relationship between migrants and the state is in flux.
References:
Brown, Wendy. 2017. Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. Princeton University Press.
De Genova, Nicholas. 2016. “The European Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe.” Social Text 34 (3 128): 75–102.
Hall, Stuart, and Doreen Massey. 2010. “Interpreting the Crisis.” Soundings 44 (44): 57–71.
Jones, Reece. 2017. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso Books.
Ngai, Mae M. 2014. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition. Princeton University Press.
Sharma, Nandita. 2020. Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Durham: Duke Univ Pr.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Mehrnush Golriz, UCLA; Boa Vista’s Dynamic Spaces of Refugee Governance |
Adam Saltsman, Worcester State University; Bordering Humanitarians—Politics, Order, and Change among Women’s Rights Activists on the Thai-Burmese Border |
Hakki Ozan Karayigit, Syracuse University; Production of Space and Social Cohesion: Roma, Iraqis, and Locals in the Ankara Neighborhood of Demirlibahce |
SHADYAR OMRANI, University of Washington; Urbanization and Immigrants’ Claim to The City: Climate Change, Cultural Resistance, And The Environmental Justice Movement In Beirut |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Panelist | Dino Kadich |
Discussant | Monica Varsanyi CUNY Graduate Center |
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Crises and conjunctures in migration geography 3
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Jessie Stein - jstein1@gradcenter.cuny.edu