Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, Life and Death in China

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, Life and Death in China

by Ralph Litzinger This paper addresses the lives and struggles of rural migrants in urban fringe spaces in the People’s Republic of China. This is part of a larger book project that tracks a seemingly disparate range of discourses, policing…

Knowledge production and the politics of ‘integration’ in contemporary Europe: challenging the depoliticisation of (anti-)racism

Knowledge production and the politics of ‘integration’ in contemporary Europe: challenging the depoliticisation of (anti-)racism

by Silvia Rodríguez Maeso Coordination: This seminar will discuss the enduring difficulties of addressing racism as a political phenomenon that shapes the normal functioning of institutions and everyday social relations within the so-called democratic societies. It will focus on the…

In and out: Stories between borders

In and out: Stories between borders

Racism, Migration and Social Struggle in Spain by Mario Espinoza Pino and Julio Martínez-Cava Aguilar (Complutense University Madrid) 1. Points of departure Spain is one of the geo-political borders of the European Union with the northern countries of Africa. Because…

Mobilizing borders: reshaping Bologna's territory through migrants struggles

Mobilizing borders: reshaping Bologna’s territory through migrants struggles

by Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti, and Maurilio Pirone (University of Bologna)

What is your Passport worth?

What is your Passport worth?

Illegalised Migration and the Paper Market by Stephan Scheel, 
Souad Osseiran and Soledad Alvarez Velasco (King’s College, London) The current climate of contemporary globalization, far from far from yielding a borderless world, has generated a proliferation of borders and exclusions…