The Migrant Body: Embodied experiences and bodily strategies in South-South migration

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The migrant body has long been a site of struggle and activism. Only recently, however, has it become the focus of sustained migration research. Research conducted so far also tends to prioritise migrant experiences in Europe and the US, meaning analysis of migration within the Global South is both urgent and necessary. This conference has two aims. At the conceptual level, it aims to advance an intersectional understanding of the migrant body that considers how gender, race, sexual identity, and other social and political categories interact to shape migrant experiences. To achieve this, the conference will bring together a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, anthropology, development studies, and the visual arts. At the empirical level, the presentations and complementary visual programme will consider migrations that take place within or between regions of the Global South. We will bring together emerging and established scholars from both the Global South and the Global North to explore the potential of the migrant body as a starting point for analysing how migrants encounter and navigate various forms of (dis)advantage throughout their migration journeys, including the migrant body as a site of resistance.

Conference convenors

• Tanja Bastia, University of Manchester

Keynote speaker

• Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester

Speakers

• Valquiria Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Valentina Biondini, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires
• Erika Busse, Macalaster College
• Anand Panamthottam Cherian, George Mason University
• Suzana Ramos Coutinho, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
• Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University
• Marcia Vera Espinoza, Queen Margaret University
• Andrea Souto García, Universidade da Coruña
• Nay Myo Htet, University of Manchester
• Yiqiu Huag, The University of Hong Kong
• Lorena Izaguirre, UCLouvain, Belgium
• Mayssa Joabli, University of Cape Town
• Stefy Joseph, Liverpool Hope University
• Marzana Kamal, Liverpool Hope University
• Aija Lulle, University of Eastern Finland
• Murtaza Mohiqi, University of Agder
• Rishvanth Mucheli, Liverpool Hope University
• Vania Reyes Muñoz, Centro COES (VRM), Chile
• Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Global Development Institute, UK
• Amira Ousaifi, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Sousse, Tunisia
• Ayesha Pattnaik, University of Oxford
• Susmita Paul, Liverpool Hope University
• Yvonne Riaño, University of Neuchatel / Bern, Switzerland
• Andrea Cortes Saavedra, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile
• Marielys Padua Soto, The American University in Cairo

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Image credit: Ao sol, ao vento/ To the sun, to the wind. Brazil. Bruna Curcio.