{"id":329,"date":"2015-11-29T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/?p=329"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:30:21","slug":"international-conference-on-migration-irregularisation-and-activism-challenging-contemporary-border-regimes-racism-and-subordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/undocumentedmigrants\/2015\/11\/29\/international-conference-on-migration-irregularisation-and-activism-challenging-contemporary-border-regimes-racism-and-subordination\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Papers<\/em><\/span>:<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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15-16 of June 2016, Malm\u00f6, Sweden,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>www.mia-conference.se<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Confirmed keynote speakers: Bridget Anderson (Oxford University), Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Relations) and Mercedes Jim\u00e9nez (University of Algarve)<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the current era of increasing securitisation of border controls and restrictive asylum and migration politics, the<\/span>journey to and within the EU is a life-threatening endeavour that has taken uncountable numbers of lives over the\u00a0<\/span>last decades. The bordering processes are not limited to the crossing of nation-state borders but also operate in\u00a0<\/span>everyday lives inside and across borders. Through processes of exclusion as well as processes of subordinated and\u00a0<\/span>differentiated inclusion, borders permeate all aspects of the welfare state, the labour market, and everyday lives. At\u00a0<\/span>the same time, there are numerous struggles by migrants who in different ways contest border regimes and racialised\u00a0<\/span>practices of policing., These developments are taking place in a context of hyper-polarisation of political reactions.<\/span>Racist and fascist discourses feed into ideas of fear and emergency, parallel with a renewed growth of humanitarian<\/span><\/p>\n

and activist responses aimed at resisting migration control and challenging these discourses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This conference is organised by a network of researchers, located in Sweden, focusing on processes of<\/span><\/p>\n

irregularisation, irregularity, migration and migrants\u2019 social and political struggles. Many scholars in the network have\u00a0<\/span>a strong commitment to building bridges between the academy and civil society activism around these issues. Locally\u00a0<\/span>in Malm\u00f6, where the conference is taking place, there is a growing activism among antiracist and migration rights\u00a0<\/span>networks engaging in postcolonial and intersectional debates. People themselves subject to different forms of\u00a0<\/span>migration control are increasingly involved in these networks. To link the conference to these contexts we invite\u00a0<\/span>activists (irrespective of their academic affiliations) as well as researchers in order to create a space for mutually\u00a0<\/span>enriching knowledge exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We welcome a broad range of papers that critically address issues of border control as well as issues of activism and\u00a0<\/span>irregularisation of migrants. We especially encourage papers addressing issues such as, but not exclusive to:<\/span><\/p>\n