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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. **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************