Migration in and from the Global South

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Although migration is increasingly taking place within the Global South, it has been comparatively understudied. This panel seeks to understand political reactions to migration within and from new sending and receiving states in the Global South. Holland, Peters, Sanchez, and Zhou examine how the public in the Global South reacts to large inflows of migrants with the case of Colombian reactions to Venezuelans. They focus on testing our theories on public opinion from the Global North as well as develop new arguments that apply to the Global South context. Finn moves from public opinion to policy and examines the historical expansion of voting rights to immigrants in authoritarian Chile to better understand the conditions in which autocracies expand rights. Wellman picks up the thread of authoritarianism to understand how opposition movements can, and cannot, organize in democracies in the Global South with a study of the Zimbabwean opposition in South Africa. Finally, Robinson and Adida examine what happens when new migrant groups from the Global South move to the Global North, seeking to understand how African immigrants in the US understand their identities as “black” or “immigrant.” Together, the panel addresses important questions about the reception and integration of migrants and their transnational activities in novel, but increasingly common, contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• The Reception of Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia - Margaret E. Peters, University of California, Los Angeles; Alisha Caroline Holland, Harvard University; Thania Sanchez, American Civil Liberties Union; Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia

• Expanding Noncitizen Voting Rights during Dictatorship: An Extreme Case - Victoria Finn, European University Institute

• Migration, Mobilization and Refugee Status: Zimbabweans in South Africa - Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College

• Becoming Black? The Political Integration of African Immigrants in the US - Amanda Lea Robinson, Ohio State University; Claire Leslie Adida, UCSD

Chair

• Margaret E. Peters University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant

• Fiona B. Adamson University of London, SOAS