CFP AAG 2016: Transnationalizing Migration Management?
AAG annual meeting, San Francisco, March 29 - April 2, 2016
Organizers
Malene H. Jacobsen and Leif Johnson (University of Kentucky)
Session Overview
Although international migration by its very nature involves flows
across territorial borders, the geographical imagination of migration
management remains thoroughly embedded within the nation-state. Building
on the recent work of Mountz & Loyd (2014) and Collyer & King (2015),
this session asks the question of what it means to theorize migration
management through a transnational lens. This session is aimed broadly
at scholars interested in spaces of bordering and migration management
practices in the context of cross border governance. We invite
submissions that explore the spatial aspects of migration management
across different scales.
The session seeks to engage in the following questions but is also open
to others: How do national/transnational understandings of migration
management differ and/or converge? How is the concept of
transnationalism related to other concepts in migration studies like the
international, (im)mobility, flows, networks, globalization,
extraterritoriality, offshoring, assemblage, etc.? To what extent is the
transnationalization of migration management a historically novel
trend/phenomenon? How is the phenomenon related to changes within the
nation-state itself or other forces (market pressures,
neoliberalization, etc.)? How can transnational migration management
practices/strategies be studied empirically and unpacked conceptually?
What kinds of political possibilities does the transnationalization of
migration management enable or foreclose?
Possible empirical topics might include:
The spatiality of borders and migration management
Geographies of the institutions and agencies engaged in transnational
migration management
The roles of international agencies and humanitarian organizations in
controlling/facilitating mobility
Cross-border policing and policies
Bi- and multilateral agreements between countries
Socioeconomic development in border regions
The role of development aid in migration management
Migration management as an area of expertise, intervention, and
specialist domain of knowledge, logics, personnel, methods, and politics
The humanitarian-migration management nexus
Managerial practices such as refugee resettlement, deterrence,
confinement, deportation, and ‘voluntary’ return
Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Malene H. Jacobsen
([log in to unmask]) and Leif Johnson ([log in to unmask]) by
Monday, October 19th, 2015. Selected abstracts will be accepted by
October 21st. All participants must provide AAG PINs by October 28th.
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