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< h3>CMS is thrilled to welcome Prof. Nina Glick Schiller as the in-person keynote speaker for th e CMS International Research Conference 2024.Her hybrid talk\,
[accordions collapsible=true active=false ][accordion title="Abstract"]Many of the central concepts in migration scho larship and policy formation – integration\, assimilation\, ethnic communit ies- multiculturalism\, pluralism\, transnationalism – have focused on cont exts that allowed people to enter a nation-state in which they were not bor n\, settle\, and obtain full rights and protection from their new state. Ho wever\, the intense anti-migration politics of the present day are producin g the end of migration as we know it and the emergence of migration regimes of rightless labour and permanent transience. Most migrants\, whether they are classified as contract workers or asylum seekers\, do lawful or off-th e-books low-wage labour and become the object of labour extraction. In Bren da Yeoh’s terms\, these migrants exist in states of “permanent temporarines s.” Similarly\, Robin Cohen speaks of the global emergence of a class of he lots – beings without rights\, including a right to be considered part of h umanity. These migrants\, although they are vital to the well-being of glob al corporations and the citizens of nation-states\, are never able to settl e permanently\; their mobility\, even outside of their workplace\, is incre asingly curtailed. In response to this transformation\, Michiel Bass and I have called on migration scholars and activists to study and halt the proce sses of dehumanization through which rights to move\, settle and obtain cit izenship are being eliminated. We have proposed four foundational prepositi ons to speak to the transformation of migration regimes: (1) Current mi gration scholarship is mired in theories about migration that reflect past regimes\, infrastructures and legalities\; (2) Current migration regimes ar e eliminating the right to settle\; (3) The end of migration as we know it goes hand in hand with the growth of a migration industry that facilitates “mobility” across borders for a profit\; (4) Hope can be found in social mo vements that support migrants’ rights to settlement and transnationality.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=fals e][accordion title="Nina Glick Schiller's Bio"]Nina Glick Schiller is Emeri tus Professor\, University of Manchester\, UK and University of New Hampshi re\, USA\, founding editor of Identities and co-editor of Anth ropological Theory. Her research topics include urbanism\, urban regen eration\, transnational migration\, migration services\, migration and deve lopment\, critiques of methodological nationalism and the ethnic lens\, rac ialization and power\, dispossession and displacement\, cosmopolitan sociab ility\, and the construction of risk. She has conducted research in Haiti\, the USA\, the UK\, and Germany.
Her books include Nations Unboun d: Transnational Projects\, Postcolonial Predicaments and the Deterritorial ized Nation-States\, Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migrat ion: Race\, Class\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism Reconsidered\, Ge orges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home\, Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cro ss-Border Studies\, Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnation al Religious and Diasporic Networks\, Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Persp ectives\, Relationalities and Discontent\, Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power\, Locating Migration: Rescaling Citi es and Migrants\; and Migrants and City Making: Dispossession\, Displacemen t and Urban Regeneration.[/accordion][/accordions]
This talk is presented as part of the CMS International Research Conference 2024\, which will take place on Wednesday\, May 15\, and Thursday\, May 16\, 2024.
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