Events / Program: Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Migrants and Roads	Fri, 28.07.2023	Conferences and Workshops		Migrants and Roads Fri, 28.07.2023 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops Reporting in the Wake of Disasters and Migration. Media workshop in Kolkata. Read more

	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’	Mon, 03.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities	Mon, 13.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium	Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna	Thu, 09.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
	Researching 'Journeys': Challenges and Possibilities in Migration Studies	Wed, 14.12.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarIshita Dey	Researching 'Journeys': Challenges and Possibilities in Migration Studies Wed, 14.12.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarIshita Dey Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this presentation, Ishita Dey focused on railway networks that have played a role in the lives of internal migrant workers, especially in the context of Bihar in Eastern India, and highlighted possibilities of ethnographic engagements on journeys as a method in migration studies. Read more
Researching 'Journeys': Challenges and Possibilities in Migration Studies Wed, 14.12.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarIshita Dey Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this presentation, Ishita Dey focused on railway networks that have played a role in the lives of internal migrant workers, especially in the context of Bihar in Eastern India, and highlighted possibilities of ethnographic engagements on journeys as a method in migration studies. Read more
	Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration	Wed, 19.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra	Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration Wed, 19.10.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the global conjuncture of pandemic and war, borders and mobilities continue to play key roles in the mutations of politics and society, states and capitalism. Based on a project Sandro Mezzadra is currently pursuing with Brett Neilson, this seminar focused in particular on the shifts characterizing the management of borders and movements of migration since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration Wed, 19.10.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the global conjuncture of pandemic and war, borders and mobilities continue to play key roles in the mutations of politics and society, states and capitalism. Based on a project Sandro Mezzadra is currently pursuing with Brett Neilson, this seminar focused in particular on the shifts characterizing the management of borders and movements of migration since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
	Digitized Migrants	Thu, 15.09.2022 - Fri, 16.09.2022	Conferences and Workshops	Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu	Digitized Migrants Thu, 15.09.2022 - Fri, 16.09.2022 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu Series: Conferences and Workshops The two Global Compacts on migration have advocated the increased use of digital technologies to enhance the protection, welfare, and development of refugees and migrants. The use of new technologies of surveillance that identify, track, and control the people crossing borders result in the increasing digitalization of borders, migrants, and their management. Biometrics and automated decision-making tools, as well as the surveillance of social media have increasingly become central to migration management technologies. These border security technologies are not simply technological improvement of existing forms of border control or governance. The militarization and computerization of borders raise important questions about the politics of data, data subjects, biopolitics, (scales of) sovereignty, regulation, and different forms of sovereign, regulatory, and disciplinary power. We are yet to fully grasp the social implications of this new regime of automated truth registration. Does it create new inequalities and/or reinforce old ones? Is it only a tool of oppression, appropriation and exclusion, or does it offer any opportunity for emancipation? How can we think about agency and solidarity in a digital word? Read more
Digitized Migrants Thu, 15.09.2022 - Fri, 16.09.2022 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu Series: Conferences and Workshops The two Global Compacts on migration have advocated the increased use of digital technologies to enhance the protection, welfare, and development of refugees and migrants. The use of new technologies of surveillance that identify, track, and control the people crossing borders result in the increasing digitalization of borders, migrants, and their management. Biometrics and automated decision-making tools, as well as the surveillance of social media have increasingly become central to migration management technologies. These border security technologies are not simply technological improvement of existing forms of border control or governance. The militarization and computerization of borders raise important questions about the politics of data, data subjects, biopolitics, (scales of) sovereignty, regulation, and different forms of sovereign, regulatory, and disciplinary power. We are yet to fully grasp the social implications of this new regime of automated truth registration. Does it create new inequalities and/or reinforce old ones? Is it only a tool of oppression, appropriation and exclusion, or does it offer any opportunity for emancipation? How can we think about agency and solidarity in a digital word? Read more
	Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context	Wed, 06.07.2022	Panels and Discussions	Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Randall Hansen Ayşe ÇağlarAlex Aleinikoff, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk	Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context Wed, 06.07.2022 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Randall Hansen Ayşe ÇağlarAlex Aleinikoff, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk Series: Panels and Discussions The Ukrainian war unleashed unprecedented displacements in Europe, unseen since WWII. Most of the borders in Europe and throughout the world were opened to Ukrainians - in contrast to the restrictive border regimes many recent refugee movements to Europe, such as the Syrian or Afghani refugees fleeing war, were subject to. A series of schemes were developed to welcome Ukrainian refugees and emplace them into the labor markets and educational systems of their host countries. Instead of approaching the current Ukrainian refugee movement as unique and singular, this panel aimed to situate its dynamics within a broader context of refugee movements in Europe and beyond. It further placed it in conversation with the historical, political, and social contexts that cause such movements in the first place and seeks to explore it in relation to and together with other refugee movements globally. Read more
Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context Wed, 06.07.2022 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Randall Hansen Ayşe ÇağlarAlex Aleinikoff, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk Series: Panels and Discussions The Ukrainian war unleashed unprecedented displacements in Europe, unseen since WWII. Most of the borders in Europe and throughout the world were opened to Ukrainians - in contrast to the restrictive border regimes many recent refugee movements to Europe, such as the Syrian or Afghani refugees fleeing war, were subject to. A series of schemes were developed to welcome Ukrainian refugees and emplace them into the labor markets and educational systems of their host countries. Instead of approaching the current Ukrainian refugee movement as unique and singular, this panel aimed to situate its dynamics within a broader context of refugee movements in Europe and beyond. It further placed it in conversation with the historical, political, and social contexts that cause such movements in the first place and seeks to explore it in relation to and together with other refugee movements globally. Read more
	"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste	Wed, 11.05.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger	"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste Wed, 11.05.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia As the principal city of a border region long imagined as straddling Europe’s East-West divide, Trieste became a critical hub in the post-1945 landscape of European refugee relief. Under Anglo-American Allied Military Government until 1954 as a result of the protracted territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, the city remained an important transit point for persons displaced out of the newly established socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe well into the 1960s. Read more
"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste Wed, 11.05.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia As the principal city of a border region long imagined as straddling Europe’s East-West divide, Trieste became a critical hub in the post-1945 landscape of European refugee relief. Under Anglo-American Allied Military Government until 1954 as a result of the protracted territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, the city remained an important transit point for persons displaced out of the newly established socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe well into the 1960s. Read more