Abstract
Migration industry has recently emerged as a lens through which to theorise the intertwinement of non-state actors who aim to provide diverse migration-pertaining services. However, while much of their work is done in and through cities, so far scholarly literature has paid little attention to the nexus between cities and the migration industry. In the first part of this paper is based on a special issue we co-edited in 2022. We will argue that the migration industries concept provides a very productive lens for urbanists to consider - and vice versa that scholars of migration industries should think through their work from an urban perspective. Specifically, we stress three key analytical vantage points that the attention to migration industries enables us to see as central to contemporary city-making: its political-economic embeddedness, the urban-constitutive nature of trans-local connectivities, and how business-driven city-making dovetails with more serendipitous, bottom-up shaping of the arrival city. In the second part of the paper, we will address some of the open questions with regard to the migration industries concept we have encountered in our own work, one of them being the articulation between place-specific structural conditions and institutional set-ups on the one hand and the emergence of variegated landscapes of migration industries on the other.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Publikationsdato | 2024 |
Status | Udgivet - 2024 |
Begivenhed | Scholars of Excellence Workshop: The “integration business”: A radical critique on migration, development and reception services - Toronto Metropolitan University & Online, Toronto , Canada Varighed: 23 apr. 2024 → 23 apr. 2024 https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/events/2024/04/scholars-of-excellence-apr-23/ |
Workshop
Workshop | Scholars of Excellence Workshop: The “integration business” |
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Lokation | Toronto Metropolitan University & Online |
Land/Område | Canada |
By | Toronto |
Periode | 23/04/2024 → 23/04/2024 |
Andet | In recent years there has been significant discussion of the “migration infrastructure”, notably the networks, institutions and organizations that mediate migration trajectories. There has also been critical analysis of the economies of migration control that have emerged around borders, both territorial and digital ones, and the private interests behind them. Less attention has been paid though to the sector that has emerged around migrant reception. This workshop takes a radical critical approach on to examining these concerns, looking at how provision of local migrant services, whether in border areas, or locations of settlement, give rise to a migrant “integration business”. This business becomes part of local economies, while resting on structures of inequality, displacement, dispossession and unequal capital accumulation, and deepening these processes.<br/><br/>The workshop is organized into two panels. The first focuses on the local aspects of this migration industry in both border areas and settlement locations, critically analyzing the ways locals, settled migrants and recently arrived asylum seekers, refugees or migrants become entangled in forms of service provision that extract capital and constitute multi-scalar processes of governance. The second panel expands this critical perspective by engaging with the broader policy and political discourses on migration and development. Contributors to both panels seek to unmask the processes of capital accumulation that underlie the regulation of mobility, territory, social life and political subjectivities. |
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