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Friday, 13 September 2024 /9h – 18h
Centre de colloques, Campus Condorcet – Aubervilliers
The 6th IC Migrations Scientific Conference, organized by the Institute’s PhD students, will focus on the theme of “trembling borders”, in a situation where some land borders are closing and others are appearing, reappearing or becoming more fragile. These phenomena are at the heart of world events. They resonate with the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, or European migration policies, notably through the new Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted by the European Union in April 2024. Similarly, new national legislation, such as the immigration law in France or UK’s migration policies, which externalize borders as far to Rwanda, highlight the arbitrary and abstract nature of borders.
Since the early 2000s, with the emergence of Critical Border Studies, the scientific community has ceased to perceive the border, whether territorial or social, as a simple demarcation or line. Instead, the border is now seen as a constructed object, continually redrawn, questioned and sometimes even revoked. Borders are also viewed as a lived experience, putting the individuals who experience them in the forefront. Moreover, the border as a demarcation point for social groups has long been studied as a space for constructing both self-identity and that of the “Other”.
The Conference will feature round tables, debates and screenings of artists’ and journalists’ work, in an interdisciplinary approach.
What are borders ? Who creates them ? What dynamics emerge ? Who studies borders and how ? How do we approach state, natural, social, cultural and administrative borders, as well as racial, gender and linguistic borders ?
This Conference is part of a wider series of scientific events devoted to borders and designed to complement each other : click here to find out more.
9h – 18h
