Call for Papers for the Migration Stream

In an era marked by war, the rise of the far-right, deepening socio-economic inequalities, stringent migration policies, and mass displacement, the intersections of migration, struggle, and politics are more relevant than ever. The HM Migration Stream seeks to examine how global inequalities, border regimes, and the logics of humanitarian capitalism influence migrations, deepen labor precarity, and reinforce hierarchies based on race, gender and class on local and global scales.

At the heart of these discussions, we aim to illuminate how colonial legacies continue to shape migration policy and practices, often under the guise of humanitarian interventions that prioritize control and profit over support. This stream encourages contributions that critically analyze these forces, questioning how migration policies sustain structures of exploitation and how migrant communities resist and navigate these challenges.

We welcome presentations and panel proposals on the following themes (not exhaustively): 

Humanitarian Capitalism and Migrant Labor: How state and non-state actors profit from particular migration management regimes. 

Colonial Legacies in Migration Policies: Analysis of the continued impact of colonial histories on migration management, including the racialized frameworks used to categorize and control populations.

Borders and Technologies: How borders operate as mechanisms of discipline, of socio-economic stratification, of class-based exclusions often enabled by digital, surveillance, and biometric technologies.

Intersectionality and Oppression: Exploring how race, gender, class, sexuality and religion dialectically shape migration policies and migrant experiences. 

Resistance and Solidarity Across Borders: Bringing to the fore the practices of migrants and grassroots initiatives that challenge, resist and subvert border enforcement,labor exploitation, exclusion, and racialized forms of control.

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