Please join us for the third event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined.
This is a hybrid event.
Abstract
In this talk, Willem Schinkel seeks to contribute to ongoing ways of rethinking what ‘migration’ is, and how ‘migration studies’ is implicated in it.
The context of his topic is EU-ropean registration, problematization, and management of migration. He seeks to show that ‘migration’ becomes an object of concern (i.e., an object of science but also an object of government) only as an effect of accounting, of the registration of comings and goings within the reference space of the international system of nation-states, amidst which colonial divides are reproduced in part through the registration and visualization of ‘migration.’ These quite literal forms of accounting constitute a form of ‘double bookkeeping.’ From this, Schinkel puts forward a perspective in which migration appears as a modality of debt.
This talk will provide fruitful ways to consider the coloniality of knowledge production in migration studies, and what its decolonization might mean in practice rather than in theory.
Speaker Bio
Willem Schinkel is Professor of Social Theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He publishes on migration, racial capitalism, violence, and political theory. He is the author of 15 books on a variety of topics. His 2017 book Imagined Societies: A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press) deals with migration and immigrant integration in Europe.
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