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Long Abstract
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This panel, proposed by the WCAA, seeks to discern/ interpret comparatively the conjunction between the racialized and gendered control of migration governance across the globe and of border regimes, migrants and refugees´ insurgent attempts to cross territorial or maritime borders and recent demands of immigrant labor. While nation-states provide special visas for highly qualified professionals and investors, those trying to escape poverty, wars, climate crises or other conflicts and who find themselves in undocumented situation, tend to be violently barred, imprisoned, repatriated, or deported. Covid has exacerbated securitization and criminalization as well as flexible labor and outsourcing, while bringing an escalating violence against the dispossessed. It has also shown the roles of social networks and communication guiding migratory path of social solidarity movements in defense of human and mobility rights. How do we expose the relations between current securitization and criminalization policies, processes of dispossession, demands of immigrant labor and the role of social networks of support and communication guiding migratory paths, as well as the formation of social movements? Are there differences between migration and refugee policies in places governed respectively by the far right or by the left? How is race and gender expressed in migration regimes and social solidarity movements, as well as in the daily life of migrants and refugees, where and when? When and how does the criminalization of solidarity and of the very concept of human rights arises? In order to address these issues, this panel aims at bringing together researchers who have been studying migration and refuge in different continents. Grounded in ethnographic/ ethno-historical perspectives, we seek to analyze comparatively the dialectical relations among migration regimes, migrants and refugees´ social organization and labor, resistance and insurgencies, the role of both social networks of support and communications as well of social solidarity movements.
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