The Migrant Body in South-South Migrations Conference

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.

With the generous support of the British Academy Conference Grants and the University of Manchester Hallsworth Conference Fund.

Convenor

Prof Tanja Bastia, University of Manchester

Photo competition jury

Dr Erika Busse, Associate Professor, Sociology, Macalester College

Dr María Calderón Muñoz, Independent Researcher

Dr Verónica Castro, Visual Anthropologist and Film Director

Photo exhibition, The migrant body in South-South migration

Curated by Dr Verónica Castro

Premiere film screenings

MIGRANT BODY: ABDULAI and ELHADJI, BINTA, AND AWA / Cape Verde

Film produced and made by Verónica Castro and Helena Inverno

MIGRANTS: We Cannot Be Sad Here and In Plain Sight/ Malaysia
Directed by Sheril A. Bustaman

Showcase: supporting migrant women through art therapy, by Sofía Calderón, Women’s Federation Sucumbíos, Ecuador. There will be a cloth/ textile exchange and we will exhibit products made by migrant women in Ecuador.

Confirmed speakers

Keynote: Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK

Aija Lulle, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Amira Ousaifi, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Sousse, Tunisia

Anand Panamthottam Cherian, George Mason University, US

Andrea Cortes Saavedra, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile

Andrea Souto García, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Ayesha Pattnaik, University of Oxford, UK

Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Lorena Izaguirre, UCLouvain, Belgium

Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Global Development Institute, UK

Marcia Vera Espinoza, Queen Margaret University (MVE), UK and Vania Reyes Muñoz, Centro COES (VRM), Chile

Marielys Padua Soto, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Marzana Kamal, Stefy Joseph, Susmita Paul, Rishvanth Mucheli, Liverpool Hope University, UK

Mayssa Joabli, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Murtaza Mohiqi, University of Agder, Norway

Nay Myo Htet, University of Manchester, UK

Suzana Ramos Coutinho, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, US

Valentina Biondini, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valquiria Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Yiqiu Huag, the University of Hong Kong

Yvonne Riaño, University of Neuchatel / Bern, Switzerland

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