Internal Migration Politics

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together four papers that consider the politics of free movement and rights to internal migration within a political system:

Allan Colbern argues that the overlapping jurisdictions in a federalist system such as the United States allows for the right to free movement to develop across national borders and within them, and to span multiple jurisdictions that can provide (or deny) this right to individuals, including formal citizens and non-citizens.

Andrea Silva investigates how state actors, specifically immigrant rights, social justice, and youth groups in Minnesota and Wisconsin worked to legislate in-state tuition opportunities in public universities.

Kamal Sadiq investigates what institutional barriers limit the status, rights and identities of poor internal migrants in India. The internal movement of rural to urban migrants is constitutionally guaranteed yet internal migrants to Indian cities experience institutional obstacles in accessing rights.

Willem Maas investigates the role of money in internal migration, demonstrating the ways in which financial disparities and conditions exist in tension with ideas of shared citizenship. The paper theorizes about such phenomena and the politics of internal migration.

Monica Varsanyi will open the discussion.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• The Right to Free Movement in the United States: Rethinking (Non)Citizen Binary - Allan Colbern, Arizona State University

• Interstate Social Mobilization for In-State Tuition - Andrea Silva, University of North Texas

• Internal Migration and Money - Willem Maas, York University

Chair

• Willem Maas York University

Discussants

• Monica W Varsanyi CUNY Graduate Center

• Kamal Sadiq University of California, Irvine