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Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies and Bio-Politics
Columbia University, New York
2-3 April 2009
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.
This event is free and open to the public.
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/
Registration strongly recommended.
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