Overview

The Inter-thematic Group on Migration (ITM), of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC) launches its 2022 activities with a series of ‘smart’ seminars that critically engage with migration(s) as a phenomenon that is concomitantly geopolitical and urban, social and cultural, as well as technologically determined by various interoperating regimes of biopolitical surveillance.

Reckoning with the urgency of approaching migration(s) through an interdisciplinary lens, the ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises dedicates each seminar to a disciplinary standpoint or a situated manifestation of broader trends concerning the management of national borders, processing of refugee claims, and the socio-cultural inclusion of populations with a migrant background.

The ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises  adopts a 1 hour ‘smart’ format, where one speaker per seminar is invited to discuss a selected topic in dialogue with the seminar series organisers and audience. The seminar will be held online and open to the general public. 

The ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises kickstarts with Sílvia Leiria Viegas presenting the findings of the research project ‘INSEhRE 21: ​Socio-spatial and Housing Inclusion of Refugees in Portugal’

(May 12), and Nina Amelung discussing her work on ‘Securitization and Crimmigration in the Migration Management Infrastructures of the EU’ (June 16). Further events of the seminar series will be communicated a month ahead through the website of CES.

Scientific & organizing team: Cristiano Gianolla (CES-UC), Gaia Giuliani (CES-UC), Joana Sousa Ribeiro (CES-UC), Maria Elena Indelicato (CES-UC), Nina Amelung (ICS-ULisboa), Sílvia Leiria Viegas (CIAC/UAlg)