Migration Interdependence in World Politics

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Migration generates both tensions and opportunities for leverage in global politics as it contributes to complex relations of cooperation or coercion among countries of origin, transit, and destination. This panel draws on the concept of migration interdependence as it aims to encourage international studies scholars’ theorisation of the interplay between migration, cooperation, and conflict. Panellists draw on a range of empirical cases situated in both Western Europe and North America, as well as multiple regions of the Global South, including Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. This ambitious collection of papers seeks to bring to the forefront heretofore-unexamined dimensions of regional and global migration governance. By bridging the divide between comparative politics and international relations, the panel suggests fruitful ways forward for further scholarly engagement with the concept of interdependence in order to nuance the political importance of varied forms of cross-border mobility.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Chair

• Tom K. Wong University of California, San Diego

Discussant

• Terri E Givens University of British Columbia

Individual Presentations

• Migration Interdependence in Europe and North America - Fiona B. Adamson, SOAS University of London; James F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University

• The (Post)Colonial Roots of Migration Interdependence in the Global South - Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Glasgow; Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine

• The Informal Institutions of Migration Interdependence in East Asia - Yunchen Tian, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken); Erin Aeran Chung, Johns Hopkins University; James F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University

• Migrant Workers and the Developmental Migration State in Taiwan - Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University