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This is a call for papers by the ‘Europe, Migration and the New Politics of
(In)security’ research network team, a White Rose collaboration funded
project between the University of York, University of Sheffield and
University of Leeds, UK.
Call for Papers: (Re)producing insecurities
The recent EU referendum campaign and resultant vote for the UK to leave
the EU is creating new insecurities for EU citizens within and prospective
migrants to the UK. At the same time, the European refugee ‘crisis’ was
mobilised as a source of fear, insecurity and threat to the UK electorate
by the Leave side in the referendum campaign. A collision of fears around
intra EU mobility and refugee crisis was manufactured as a central feature
of the Brexit vote. Central to such mobilisations are of course the
reproduction of older legacies of inequality, precarity as well as white
privilege, racism and colonial constructions of self and other. This
workshop aims to address this duality within the new politics of insecurity
in Europe: the (re)production of new forms of insecurity for migrants and
their families, and the mobilisation of migration as an insecurity for
resident populations. Here (re)production draws attention to the intimate
connectivities of multiple ‘crises’ and the material, intimate, embodied
sites and processes through which ‘new’ insecurities are (re)produced.
We particularly invite papers which connect fear of migrants with migrants’
fears. We also encourage consideration of the multiple scales and
temporalities through which insecurity is felt, understood, managed,
manipulated and ultimately (re)produced: through intimate relationships,
within and outside ‘family’ groupings, across and within forms of
affiliation, wider social institutions and trans/national polities. Papers
are welcomed addressing (but not limited to) the following questions:
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How are connections between the consequences of the Brexit vote and the
migrant 'crisis' reproducing (in)securities?
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How are migration insecurities mobilised politically across Europe?
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What evidence, if any, exists that migration contributes to rising
economic and social insecurities of citizens in receiving societies in
terms of e.g. labour markets, housing and welfare?
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How might experiences of precarity across groups posited as ‘us’ or
‘them’ be connected?
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How are insecurities processed, mediated or challenged through intimate
relations?
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How do precarious migrants and their families plan future lives amid
‘crisis’?
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What practices of in/visibility are employed in the micro-politics of
everyday encounters by EU nationals in response to fears?
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What research methods and approaches capture crisis, emotion, intention
and temporality of (re)producing insecurities?
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How do we move forward as a society from these insecurities?
We invite paper proposals (abstracts of 200 words) addressing these and
related questions from a theoretical, empirical, and/or normative
perspective. PhD students and early career scholars are encouraged to apply.
The workshop is particularly interested in papers that examine the social,
political and ethical dynamics of (re)producing insecurities for (and
about) mobile subjects within the contemporary ‘crisis’.
The workshop keynote lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas De Genova.
Please send abstracts to Hannah Lewis ([log in to unmask]) by 1
August 2017.
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