At the limits of migrant justice, resistance, and solidarity<\/b><\/p>\n
Session organisers: Leah Montange (University of Toronto) & Sarah M. Hughes (Durham University, UK).<\/i><\/p>\n
Please see below for a CFP for\u00a0the Canadian\u00a0Association of Geographers annual conference in Winnipeg 27-29 May 2019. <\/i><\/p>\n
The political acts, subjectivities, and contestations of migrating or border crossing people has become an increasingly pervasive theme within and beyond Political Geography.\u00a0 Scholars have attended to how migrants without formal citizenship are able to demand rights (see McNevin 2011; Sigvardsdotter 2013; Mountz et al. 2013); make their political voices heard through, for example,\u00a0protests and the occupation of buildings (see Walters 2010; Nyers 2008); and enact themselves as citizens (see Isin and Nielsen 2008; Anderson\u00a0et\u00a0al. 2011). There is however, often\u00a0a tension present in this literature concerning whether\u00a0migrating people are enacting\u00a0a form of citizenship\u00a0and\/or a mode of political subjectivity that is beyond or beside citizenship (see Squire 2015; Erensu 2016). Further, literatures from ethnic and migration studies offer yet another frame for interpreting the ways that border crossing people interact with power structures that seek to shape, their geographic mobilities (see Menj\u00edvar 2006; Chauvin and Garc\u00e9s-Mascre\u00f1as 2014). This literature especially attends to how various forms of legality, illegality, and racialization (also varied) impact upon the way people are read, and the hierarchization of life chances. One key focus here has been migrant peoples\u2019 navigation of legal (and illegal) violence and the negotiation of racial regimes (see Menj\u00edvar and Abrego 2012; Ybarra 2018).<\/p>\n
These frameworks for reading the politics of migrant and border crossing life give us an angle and language for understanding the politics of migration and border crossing activity.\u00a0We ask in this session what do such terms as \u2018acts\u2019, \u2018justice\u2019, \u2018resistance\u2019 or \u2018solidarity\u2019 do in our research? What might be the limits of these categories? And what might be the political implications of deploying them?\u00a0Our session\u00a0therefore\u00a0seeks to critically engage with these debates around the politics of migration,\u00a0through empirically based geographical research.\u00a0 We are particularly interested in work that:<\/p>\n
-topically ranges anywhere from collective struggles of border crossing or migrating people to everyday practices of navigating state violence<\/p>\n
-addresses strategies around and navigations of border enforcement, and the relationship of these strategies with what comes to be termed \u2018resistance\u2019<\/p>\n
-addresses contexts within and beyond the Global North<\/p>\n
-considers border crossers\u2019 or migrants\u2019 oppressions and obstacles alongside those of marginalized or racialized citizens<\/p>\n
– problematizes an emphasis on migrants\u2019 resistance and agency, or that challenges the romanticization of experiences that are precarious<\/p>\n
– considers the weight of retaliation and risk in the actions and resistance of border crossers or migrants<\/p>\n
– considers solidarity or allyship (including the limits of solidarity or allyship) on the part of citizens<\/p>\n
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Leah Montange (leah.montange@mail.utoronto.ca<\/a><\/span>) and Sarah M. Hughes (s.m.hughes@durham.ac.uk<\/a><\/span>) by the 9thth<\/sup>\u00a0February 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the limits of migrant justice, resistance, and solidarity Session organisers: Leah Montange (University of Toronto) & Sarah M. Hughes (Durham University, UK). Please see below for a CFP for\u00a0the Canadian\u00a0Association of Geographers annual conference in Winnipeg 27-29 May 2019. The political acts, subjectivities, and contestations of migrating or border crossing people has become an increasingly pervasive theme within and beyond Political Geography.\u00a0 Scholars have attended to how migrants without formal citizenship are able to…
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