BISA 2022 Conference (face-to-face)

Refugees and Insecurity

Jun 16, 2022, 10:45 AM

1h 30m

Carloil, Civic Centre

Panel International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group

Description

This panel assess the way refugees have been constructed as security threats over the last years.

Subcontributions

• Making Waste into Art, and Art into Waste: the Multiple Afterlives of Migratory Traces
• Acts of resistance and connection in the immigration detention archipelago
• Simultaneous Success and Failure: The Strange Case of the (Failed) Securitisation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the United Kingdom and Scotland
• Territorial variance in the UK’s Refugee Politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland
• Forced Mobility, Mobile Phones, and the Transnational Political Economy of Urban Precarity in Somali Cities