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Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies and Bio-Politics

This two day conference will consist of five panels, and seeks to provide a forum for reflecting on the empirical manifestations, governance issues, and ethical implications of global migration.

Migration is one of the most controversial and consequential aspects of the current era of globalization. While the mobility of goods and capital has been promoted, the movement of human beings across borders is looked upon with concern and even hostility. Nation states, confronting the exigencies of an interconnected and unstable world, resort to a bewildering array of strategies to manage their populations and citizenry both domestically and abroad. Migrant flows and patterns change as people react to and shape the economic and social dynamics that they face. Local communities create new governance structures that are often at odds with those of their nation-state. Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies, and Bio-politics will provide an opportunity to explore such processes and their implications.

Panels, with appropriate registration links, include:

Migration Patterns, Causes, and Consequences in a Fragile World
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=31196&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=6eb8fca3c08e66fbcf6ec5958ed76332&state=init&

Immigrants and the Rescaling of Governance during Times of Economic and Political Crises
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=31197&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=02a068b7858e6649ffb92e9cc4d8c4b5&state=init&

Internal Migration: Economic, Social, and Political Aspects of the Chinese Case
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=31198&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=fa58c9a008eea6662055538168dcb482&state=init&

Bio-politics and Migration: Global and National Management of Migrant Labor
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=31200&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=64e062eef2353cb54a0d212100cd7449&state=init&

Bio-politics and Migration: Security
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=31200&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=64e062eef2353cb54a0d212100cd7449&state=init&

Scheduled speakers include:

• C. Cindy Fan, Professor, Department of Geography, U.C.L.A.
• Nicholas De Genova, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latino Studies, Columbia University
• Nicholas Van Hear, Senior Researcher, COMPAS, Oxford University
• Athar Hussain, Professor and Director of Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics
• David Jacobson, Professor, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University
• Ahmed Kanna, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College
• Anush Kapadia, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
• Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor at the Department of Politics, Institutions and History of the University of Bologna
• José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice, SIPA, Columbia University
• Katharina Pistor, Professor, Columbia Law School
• Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
• Svati P. Shah, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Women's Studies, Duke University
• Feng Wang, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
• Michael Willenbuecher, translator, performer, and activist with the anti-racist network Kanak Attak, Berlin
• Yao Lu, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University

For a tentative schedule and more information, including speaker bios, please see: http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/news/2009/03/03/conference_reconceptualizing_migration_economies_societies_bio_politics/

This event is free and open to the public.