Call for Papers for the Migration and Refugees stream

While physical, digital, and categorical borders are multiplying all over the world, creating a stratified system of differential inclusion, migrant and refugee struggles are spreading inside and outside camps, workplaces, and neighborhoods all over the world dealing with over-exploitation and multiple oppressions based, among others, on race, gender, religion, and colonial traditions. The Migration and Refugees stream is intended to bring together Marxist, autonomist Marxist and other critical, interdisciplinary and transnational approaches contributing to the study of migration from a political perspective.

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

• Migrant labour and class struggle
• Migrant agency, self-organisation, and alliances
• Migration, Gender and Social Reproduction
• Struggles for and beyond citizenship
• Racial capitalism and migration
• Anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives on migration
• Externalisation of borders, digital surveillance and border struggles
• Climate change and disaster displacement
• Deportations and illegal pushbacks: political and legal responses
• Refugee camps, militarisation,  and resistance
• Criminalisation of solidarity

We welcome submissions for panels and individual papers. Abstracts should be under 300 words and be sent to the Historical Materialism Athens 2023 call for papers. We stress that the conference will be in person. Panel chairs should be clearly indicated where appropriate.