Description
This panel brings a methodologically diverse set of papers together to ask who does, and does not, count in the production and realization of global north migration policies. The papers seek out cross-disciplinary partnerships within and beyond Higher Education to forge unorthodox research partnerships to curate new interventions in the representation of migration at the global, national and local level of politics. The articles travel the breadth of supranational policy negotiations (EU), national parliamentary debates (UK), and the interventions of local authorities (Birmingham, UK) to analyze the underlying power relations that inform policy decisions at both the global and the everyday unfolding of migration. The papers draw on discussions of racial capitalism, global austerity, and necropolitics to articulate anew the lack of care and recognition provided to bodies that travel. In their own particular way each paper makes a representation that challenges the status quo of “us/them”, “insider/outsider”, the powerful and the disenfranchised. Situating these articles in conversation with each another is a deliberate provocation. The papers challenge traditional forms of knowledge production and showcase the potential of research imagined and realized beyond the academy.
