FYI
WORKSHOP - BORDERING: A VIEW FROM PORTUGAL
Place of venue: CRIA-FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon (TBC)
Date: 14th and 15th December (TBC)
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th of April 2017
Organizers:
José Mapril – CRIA-FCSH/NOVA
Inês Hasselberg – CRIA- UMinho
Francesco Vacchiano – ICS-ULisboa
Ambra Formenti - CRIA-FCSH/NOVA
Workshop Abstract:
The aim of this workshop is twofold. First, we wish to bring together
researchers working on diverse issues relating to matters of border-making
in Portugal. Second, we wish to frame the Portuguese case against the
broader backdrop of European and North American border regimes.
Despite its history as both a country of emigration and recent immigration,
policy and practices of border control and border making in Portugal – as
developed, exercised and experienced – seldom feature in border studies
literature. Yet Portugal presents itself as an interesting case on many
regards. As with other European cases, the national makeup of the migrant
population in Portugal is both the result of the country’s colonial and
post-colonial relations and the product of its integration into the EU
common space. This process has been historically marked by uneven power
relations and forms of social exclusion, yet the institutional narrative
presents Portugal as a welcoming country, naturally able to integrate
foreigners in a smooth dynamic of peaceful inclusion. This narrative is
reflected on the current political rhetoric of welcoming refugees, in
contrast to most other European countries, despite – or on account of –
more ambivalent views of the media and public opinion on the one hand, and
the limited resources made available for reception and social integration
on the other. Unlike current trends over the Global North, Portugal has
made rather limited use of detention and deportation as tools of border
management, despite the large numbers of irregularized migrants in the
country and a set of legal provisions that allow for their removal. In
Portugal, in fact, deportation can be a legal sanction inflicted as an
accessory sentence to foreign-nationals convicted of criminal offences.
That deportation is legally a form of punishment (as opposed to an
administrative practice, as in most other jurisdictions) brings to the fore
questions that intersect migration concerns with matters of punishment and
deservedness to membership.
Border-making and the deportation regime are but one of multiple forms of
governing citizenship through the proliferation of border devices.
Portugal, as elsewhere in Europe, is witnessing a multiplication of
borders, an historical process that reveals itself in a variety of sites
and locations, such as streets, neighborhoods, the labor market, health
services and the legal provisions delimiting membership and nationality.
All these continuously produce moral and socio-legal dichotomies such as
citizen and outsider, “good” and “bad” migrant, “legal” and “illegal”,
deserving and undeserving, which reveal the legacies of colonialism and its
racial and class segmentations. These processes have, in turn, complex
reverberations at the level of the political economy and the place certain
segments of the population occupy in the labor market. They have also a
crucial impact on the lives of migrants, generating specific experiences of
marginality and exclusion on one hand and, forms of negotiation and
resistance on the other.
With some of these themes in mind, a further and no less important aim of
this workshop is to place and contrast the Portuguese case studies within
broader European and North American trends in border-making. In doing so,
we wish to reflect on lessons learnt and new directions in policy and
practice, and in how these are perceived and experienced by different
stakeholders. In taking border control and border-making in Portugal as a
starting point, we wish to discuss on its possible contributions to current
debates in migration and border studies as well identify new avenues for
research.
Contributions will be empirically rich and analytically strong, drawing on
a variety of issues and each providing its own contribution to current
debates within border studies. We seek submissions from established
researchers in the field as well as from early career researchers, from a
diversity of disciplinary backgrounds.
Although this list is not exhaustive, we invite contributions that examine
through the Portuguese case:
· Institutions of order control, such as border enforcement
agencies, detention centers, administrative bodies, etc.;
· The social, legal and political constructions of migrant
illegality and undocumentation and its connections with the EU policies;
· The many sites of border making such as health services, streets,
neighborhoods, the labor market, among other examples;
· The subjective dimensions of migrant illegality and ways of
experiencing such liminal circumstances;
· The connections between border making and labor management;
· The experiences of border-crossing within the daily space of the
city;
· The emergence of new border areas, for example in informal camps,
temporary settlements or “illegal” neighborhoods;
· Phenomenological approaches to border control and border making;
· Moral discourses and experiences of deservedness;
· Intersectional perspectives drawing on gender and race are
particularly welcomed.
Submissions are accepted until the 30th of April 2017 and should include a
title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, and the name, institutional
affiliation and email address of the author(s). Submissions should be sent
to one of the editors:
José Mapril – [log in to unmask]
Ines Hasselberg – [log in to unmask]
Francesco Vacchiano - [log in to unmask]
Ambra Formenti - [log in to unmask]
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Ambra Formenti
CRIA-FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal
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