Money Matters in Migration

Session Submission Type: In-Person Roundtable

Session Description

Migration, participation, and citizenship are central political and social concerns in democratic societies and beyond. From the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, international agreements portray individuals and communities in terms of worth and value, seeing human diversity as an asset rather than a threat.

Tying migration to the language of human worth, rights, and prosperity reflects the varied contributions of the book Money Matters in Migration (Cambridge University Press, expected summer 2021). The role of money in migration – tangible, intangible, conceptual, and as a tool of policy design – is understudied, overlooked, and analytically underdeveloped.

These two roundtables bring together 16 of the book's 24 contributors to discuss various aspects of the role of money in migration.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Chair

• Tesseltje de Lange Radboud University

Presenters

• Annette Schrauwen Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance

• Ayelet Shachar University of Toronto

• Judith de Jong

• Kimberly J. Morgan George Washington University

• Elspeth Guild Queen Mary University of London