Rethinking Migration Governance in Society

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses ways to rethink migration governance in a context of societal and political interconnected phenomena, along with entangled inequalities and disruptive global events; this is all within the framework of ongoing geopolitical and pandemic crises. These persistent intensities and uncertainties are exacerbated by environmental and intersectional challenges that underscore the quest for climate and racial justice, as well as the elimination of gender violence and genocide. In order to mitigate these current trials and practices that yield further inequities, we call upon researchers to probe into the governance of regional and global migration and mobilities across a variety of political and geographical contexts, differing locales, scales and trans/national institutions. We invite contributions that empirically, conceptually and theoretically explore critical engagement with the concept of ‘migration governance’ from an interdisciplinary perspective across the humanities, social sciences and the arts. We particularly welcome work that illuminates the geopolitical dynamics, politics, policies and social inequalities in the Global South, especially regarding how Southern states address borders and controls; we also wish to address potentialities for rethinking alternative epistemological and methodological approaches from a ‘southern perspective’ in this field.

We welcome submissions on any of the following subjects:

Papers that critically analyze the current security-centric migration governance system and emphasize the rights and wellbeing of migrants, particularly refugees and asylum seekers.

We welcome contributions that focus on borders and the critical management of cross-border migration flows between countries of origin, transit, and destination through national, regional, and international cooperation.

Contributions focusing on promoting inclusive policies that include migrants into society, recognizing their contributions and enabling access to essential services and opportunities.

We also welcome papers that decenter Eurocentric approaches, promote knowledge production from the South, and integrate a range of experiences and viewpoints from the Global South into frameworks for governing migration.

Collectively, we envisage the papers bringing to the fore the different geopolitical, socio-cultural and knowledge-production ways in which migration governance unfolds and is negotiated in practice, re-constructed in policy domains or can be conceptually imagined and theoretically articulated.

Prof. Dr. Anastasia Christou
Dr. Janroj Yilmaz Keles
Guest Editors

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