CALL FOR PAPERS - Second and last call
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2013, Los
Angeles, April 9-13
BORDERS, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
Organizers:
Martin Geiger (Carleton University) and Harrison Smith (University of
Toronto)
Surveillance has taken on an increasingly important role in tandem with
the rise of new approaches to govern and influence cross-border mobility.
Unmaned Aerial Vehicles, Machine Readable Travel Documents, ePassports,
Biometric screening, and Trusted Traveler Programs, are among the most
prevalent techniques in which borders are becoming subject to surveillance
for the purposes of 'smart' and swift management of international
cross-border flows of people, commodities, and information. In addition,
the emergence of 'international migration management,' a new multi-actor,
level and sited approach to mobility, has become a notable development
which intersects throughout the use of new border surveillance and
management techniques, as trends in migration are the result of larger
institutional developments in inter-governmental relations and
international political economy. With this has come new questions for an
emerging area of academic scholarship pertaining to the relationship
between national and international actors, and their capacity to influence
and manage border flows through the development of new normative
institutions concerning proper border governance, the increasing
dependence on surveillance technology, and the collection, use and sharing
of information by different actors and agencies.
This panel seeks to address these matters to produce a critical engagement
of power and domination at the border, specifically by addressing the
actors, institutions, and practices of international mobility governance.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
− Conceptual and theoretical aspects of migration management
− Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and other inter-state and
non-state actors (including private corporations) involved with border
policy and technology
− The relationship between national state power and international actors
and institutions in the field of mobility
− The political economies of surveillance and control
− Methodological challenges and epistemological frameworks for conducting
critical border and migration research
− Power and domination in the 21st century, and the possibilities for
political activism or resistance to control and surveillance
− Border security and securitization
− International migration and identity politics
− The intersection of borders, surveillance, and international markets
− Population management, the surveillance of mobility and institutional
governance
Potential participants should contact Martin Geiger
([log in to unmask]) or Harrison Smith
([log in to unmask]) by 28 September to indicate their
interest in participating in the session(s) by providing a preliminary
paper title and short abstract of max. 300 words.
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