International conference “Geopolitics and Transnational Migration”

Research on migration significantly contributes to the reflection on global justice as it concerns topical questions about changing global political economy and forms of precarity, geopolitical and structural inequalities, transnational gendered vulnerabilities, membership, political community and intercultural relations. Receiving developed countries seek to control cross-border mobility while they also benefit from migrant labour and the forms of precarity, especially in some areas, such as low-skilled production and care work. Despite a larger share of intracontinental migration, a surveillance-industrial complex makes use of migration from developing countries as a bargaining counter to enforce regulatory regimes of managed migration and military accumulation. Critical migration studies show how migrant’s precarity is anchored in today´s form of capitalist globalisation and geopolitical power relations. Feminist scholarship has highlighted the processes of transnational social reproduction and gendered gaps in territorialisation of social rights.

The conference will take place in the Academic Conference Centre in Prague (Husova 4a, Prague 1) on 25th October 2019. More information here. Please register to the conference here.