3449 - Migration Crises: Case Studies and Comparative Analyses from Across the World

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

In the last few years, and especially during the 2015-2017 exodus across the Mediterranean-Africa and the South-South as well as Central-American-U.S. corridors, media headlines have effectively driven a narrative of migration as crisis. A narrative that has also made its way into numerous academic publications. Sudden upticks of migration flows are conceived as unexpected events. Their causes are often sought within rather narrow examinations of other recent events. And solutions to these migration crises are often framed in securitized terms. In this session we hope to engage in a dialogue across international research on various manifestations of what have been called “migration crises,” and: a) critically examine the very definition of migration crisis as employed in the media and current scholarship; b) explore the systemic roots of what may be best characterized as juxtaposing forces and secularized trends of social, economic, institutional and juridical expulsions taking place alongside capitalist development, and c) migrant responses to those expulsions by pushing against border and securitization regimes of the 21st century. We invite papers dealing with violence, political conflicts, policy regimes-, economic collapse and climate-driven “migrant expulsions” or “migration crises.”

Sub Unit

• Section on International Migration / Migration Crises: Case Studies and Comparative Analyses from Across the World

Session Organizer

• Rogelio Saenz, University of Texas-San Antonio

Presider

• Lourdes Gouveia, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Individual Presentations

• A Comparative Analysis: How Perception of Public Opinion and Attitudes Shapes Refugee Integration - Aysegul Balta Ozgen, University of Pennsylvania

• Assimilation or exclusion? Refugee access to health in Germany after the migrant crisis - Christopher Levesque, University of Minnesota

• Asylum seekers welcome? Multilevel analysis of attitudes towards asylum seekers in Europe - Egle Gusciute

• From US Request to Mexico Engagement: An Ethnographic and Visual Study of Immigration Enforcement by Proxy - Juan José Bustamante, University of Arkansas; Eric Gamino, California State University, Northridge