Call for Abstracts
IMISCOE Spring Conference
Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond
28-29 March 2019, Sheffield, UK
Organised by the Migration Research Group (MRG) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) at the University of Warsaw and IMISCOE. It is supported by the Noble Foundation’s Programme on Modern Poland.
Confirmed speakers include:
Professor Feargal Cochrane, University of Kent
Professor Nira Yuval Davis, University of East London
Professor Pawel Kaczmarczyk, University of Warsaw
Professor Shahram Khosravi, University of Stockholm
Dr Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield
Magid Magid, Lord Mayor of Sheffield
Professor Louise Ryan, University of Sheffield
Professor Peter Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute
Professor Bryan Turner, Australian Catholic University and Potsdam University
Catherine Woollard, European Council on Refugees and Exiles
At the very moment the UK plans to exit the EU, we invite migration scholars to come together to discuss how Brexit cannot be understood in isolation, but must be seen in relation to a geographic, temporal and conceptual ‘beyond’. We will collaborate to develop understanding of how on-going events in Europe and worldwide are transforming regimes, patterns and understandings of mobility and immobility.
In the 15 years since the 2004 Enlargement, at local and national scales, European countries have experienced seismic shifts associated with increasing intra-EU mobility, the economic crisis, austerity, the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the rise of far-right and other populist sentiments. Brexit is clearly a notable political landmark in the UK’s more generalised ‘hostile environment’, but globally it sits alongside other significant events such as Trump’s ‘raising the border’ rhetoric in the USA to the forced displacement of the Rohingya from Myanmar.
Following Castles (2010: 1576), we understand these shifts as bound up in broader processes of social transformation in which ‘existing social patterns are questioned and many are reconfigured’. A social transformation lens on migration, invites us, therefore, to interrogate what is changing in the politics, policies and practices of mobility and immobility, and what this means for our existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks.
We welcome paper proposals from various disciplines, theoretical and empirical oriented, case-studies and comparative and with relevance to the UK, Europe and beyond on the following themes:
· Shifting mobility and migration policy regimes
· Ordering and re-ordering of (im)mobile subjects in shifting regimes: gendered, classed and racialised implications
· Rescaling borders and everyday bordering
· Bottom-up strategies of individuals and groups to negotiate and resist borders
· Social transformation through migration: countries of origin and countries of living perspectives
· New and emerging patterns of migration and mobility
· Multicultures in place and understandings of integration in local contexts
· Understanding and responding to the politicisation of borders and migration
Important information
Day 1 of the conference is dedicated to doctoral research. PhD students will be given the opportunity to showcase their research, ‘work in progress’ and emerging research findings.
The Conference Opening Panel Discussion and a drinks reception will take place on the evening of Day 1 for all conference participants. Day 2 of the conference will include paper presentations from post-doctoral level researchers / academics and plenary sessions.
Submission of paper proposals should include a 250-word abstract. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 31st October 2018.
Applicants will be notified about the acceptance of their paper proposals by end of November 2018, at which point the conference registration system will open.
Registration Fees: PhD Day: £40 (Early Bird), £50 (Late registration); Full conference: 80 (Early Bird), 100 (Late registration). Discounted registration fees may be available for paper givers from NGOs. Please contact MRG Network Administrator for further information.
Please consult the conference webpage for more details and information on how to submit: https://mrg.group.shef.ac.uk/future-events/international-conference-transforming-mobility-and-immobility-brexit-and-beyond/
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Dr Majella Kilkey
University of Sheffield, UK
Reader in Social Policy, Dept. of Sociological Studies
Co-Director Social Sciences Migration Research Group
https://www.shef.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/kilkey
@MKilkey