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.
*‘Experiencing (in)securities’*
*Friday 3 March 2017, University of Leeds*
Keynote speaker: Dr Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham, ‘Navigating the Central Mediterranean: experiences, discourses and responses’
This workshop builds from the premise that the experience of migration produces inherent vulnerabilities: from physically perilous journeys and exposure to exploitative criminality, to precarious living conditions and
desperate survival strategies.
It is also the case, however, that the governing of migration in the name of security and humanitarianism ‘crisis’ generates (in)securities in turn. The field is characterised by multiple initiatives from various authorities that seek to distinguish, first, between different kinds of mobility, but also to intervene on lives to create recognisable and tractable subjects.
These initiatives shape the experience of migrants in Europe, of course, but also spiral into and out from the European context. That is, the ‘new’ relationship between security and mobility within the current crisis is re-articulating long-standing social, economic and cultural divisions in Europe and beyond.
This workshop is motivated by a concern to understand and document what is both new and enduring about the lived (in)securities being experienced within the contemporary migration/security context. Questions to be
examined may include (but are not limited to):
*• How is (in)security experienced, embodied and expressed by migrant subjects?*
*• What is the role and significance of ‘intermediaries’ (e.g. government, civil society, private actors including labour market intermediaries, and others) in shaping lived experiences of (in)security?*
*• What social, cultural, and ethical dilemmas and demands accompany interventions seeking to mitigate migrant insecurity?*
*• Who and what are the networks and flows of knowledge related to lived (in)securities?*
We invite paper proposals (abstracts of *200 words*) addressing these and related questions in different areas from a theoretical, empirical, and/or normative perspective.
The workshop is particularly interested in papers that examine the social, political and ethical dynamics of knowledge production within the crisis and how the research community can best generate knowledge about, with and for people affected by the migration crisis.
Please send abstracts to *Deirdre Conlon* (dconlon@leeds.ac.uk) by *Wednesday 1st February 2017**.*
Registration for this event is now open at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/white-rose- workshop- tickets-30518768 458
Please note that PhD students who are speaking at the event and are travelling from York and Sheffield may be eligible for travel bursaries.
