[CALL FOR PAPERS] Goldsmiths, University of London - 27-28 June 2014 (DIS)ORDERS OF MIGRATION Stream organisers: Cecilia Rubiolo & Silvia Scordo The tension between the desire of individuals and groups to move freely and the governmental attempts to order and control such movements in order to transform the “force of the freedom of mobility into competitively organised upward social mobility” is an emblematic figure of the establishment of capitalism and the constitution of the modern (colonial) sovereign state. With the globalization of capitalist economy – the intensification of mobility of both capital and labour, the emergence of multiple complex transnational, networked, material and immaterial practices and spaces – migration is an essential field of study to critically reflect upon the question of power within the current neoliberal order. Moreover, from our perspective, the “reproduction of capital passes through processes of urbanization”, which have recently gone global, so that “global city formation and state re-scaling are dialectically intertwined moments of a single dynamic of global capitalist restructuring”. It is mostly within the urban space that the recombination of different forms of exploitation and labour subsumption – the “long originary accumulation” – becomes visible. Therefore, it is within the urban space that different scales of mobility regulation and control (national, supra-national, sub-national) are often re-territorialized to render migrants lives productive, on the one hand, and that movements and struggles through which migrants challenge the border are enacted on an everyday basis. This stream welcomes papers which engage critically with processes of migration movements and control in concrete social situations, drawing upon concepts of Foucaultian-inspired “governmentality” and/or of “border (or migration) regimes”. Critical of frameworks in which the mechanisms of migration control and migrants agency are understood through the dichotomous divide of dominance/resistance, we encourage analysis of mobility regulation and migrant subjectivities in terms of asymmetric power relations at play across proliferating borders. Ethnographic inquiries in contemporary urban contexts, genealogical analysis of specific historical events and auto/biographical approaches critical of methodological nationalism will be particularly appreciated. Contributions may address (but are not limited to) the following issues: • techniques/technologies of ordering and classification of migrant populations, as a means of differential inclusion into – and exclusion from – a given political community (concepts: second-class citizenship, clandestinity, informality/irregularity, race/gender/class intersectionality, racialization/ethnicization, orientalism/balkanism, etc.) • practices of self-government of migration through space and time and their more or less emancipatory potentials (concepts: autonomy of migration, subjection/subjectivation, embodiment, structural/symbolic/everyday violence, religious incorporation, etc.) • the “camp form” as the establishment of “definitely temporary zones” and other forms of spatial ordering in the urban scape and their strategic use as a device of management, classification, control of migrant bodies “in excess” (concepts: deportability, securization, humanitarization, re-nomadization, segregation/gentrification, etc.). Please send abstracts to [email protected] with ‘Disorders of Migration’ in the subject line. Submissions (for 20-minute papers should) be no more than 250 words and should be received by the 10th March 2014. Participation is free (though registration will be required).
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