Unbordering Futures: Migration Studies in Urgent Times
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4th March: Room G.21, Patersons Land5th March: Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building
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Please note that this is a two-day conference, taking place on Wednesday 4th March and Thursday 5th March.
When you select your tickets you can add a ticket for Wednesday, a ticket for Thursday, or select both to be added to your basket if you wish to attend on both days.
Venues:
- Wednesday 4th March: Room G.21, Patersons Land
- Thursday 5th March: Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building
The full conference programme can be found here: Unbordering Futures - Conference Programme
“Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.”
― Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
The global proliferation of border controls and violence, increasing hostility towards migrants, and the hyper-mediatisation of migration all make an evidence-based understanding of the experiences of those on the move more urgent than ever. At the same time, broader societal changes — the erosion of democratic institutions and human rights, and a shift to the right — provide renewed purpose to calls to ‘demigranticise’ the field: that is, to consider (im)mobilities as both a deeply human and universal phenomenon.
Organised by the University of Edinburgh’s Citizenship and Migration Research Network (CMRN) and the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet, University of Glasgow), and sponsored by the Social Policy Association, and Politics and International Relations, GENDER.ED, and CRITIQUE at the University of Edinburgh, this interdisciplinary PhD conference is a solution and hope-oriented response to these societal challenges.
This in-person PhD conference will be hosted at the University of Edinburgh on the 4th and 5th March 2026. We will host panels on array of subjects as well as specialised skills workshops.
Attendance is free but registration is compulsory.
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