Border and Mobility Dynamics
The Danish Institute for International Studies in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology and Centre for African Studies (both University of Copenhagen)
Border and mobility dynamics
Reconfiguring borders and mobility in times of crisis
International Conference
Copenhagen, 26-28 September 2012
PROGRAMME
DAY 1: 26 September
8:30 – 9:00 / Coffee and Registration9:00 – 9:10 / Welcome and Opening
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, DIIS
PANEL 1
09:10 – 09.50 / The commercialization of border policing, authority and sovereignty
Keynote presentation: Through the looking-glass of readmission: The drive for securitized circularity
Jean-Pierre Cassarino, Professor, European University Institute. Director of the Return migration and Development Platform
09:50 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:30 / Lines and Flows: The beginning and end of borders
Alan D. Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer, US Department of Homeland Security
Crossing Borders: Mexican state practices, managing migration, the construction of ‘un-safe’ travellers and resistance
Marianne H. Marchand, International Relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico
10:30 – 10:45 / Short coffee break
10:45 – 11:05
11:05 – 11:25
11:25 – 11:45 / An overview on the change of border and mobilities question
Natalia Ribas-Mateos, ESOMI, The University of Coruña, Spain
Migration brokers as border authorities: Migration, legality and plural forms of paper production
Maybritt Jill Alpes, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Homeland Security? The effects of border enforcement on Guatemalan society
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, DIIS
11:45 – 12:30 / Open discussion
Chair: Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. Discussant: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, DIIS
12:30 – 13:30
PANEL 2
13:30 – 14:10 / LUNCH
Rerouting Migration: connections and disconnections
Keynote presentation: Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship
Charles Piot, Professor, Duke University, US
14:10 – 14:30
14:30 – 14:50
14:50 - 15:15 / Dynamics of Belonging in African Mobile Communities
Mirjam de Bruijn, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands
The impossibility of disconnecting the dream of Europe
Dorte Thorsen, University of Sussex, UK
Chair: Nauja Kleist, DIIS
Coffee break
15:15 – 15:35 / Bumpy Roads to Europe: Insights into the Fragmented Journeys of African Migrants Heading North
Joris Schapendonk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
15:35 – 15:55 / Returning empty-handed: Forced return and disrupted transnational practices in Ghana
Nauja Kleist, DIIS
15:55 – 16:15
16:15-17:00 /
Involuntary immobility revisited
Jørgen Carling, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)Open discussion
Discussant: Charles Piot. Chair: Dorte Thorsen
DAY 2: 27 September
PANEL 309:10 – 10.00 / Invisible Lives. Ethnographic Illuminations of undocumented Migration
Keynote presentation: Invisible Lives, Invisible Deaths? Ghanaian Migrants Lost and Found on the Mediterranean
Hans Lucht, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10:00 – 10:20
10:20 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:10 / The More You Look the Less You See: Collective Invisibility of Sudanese Refugees in Athens, Greece.
Theodore Baird, DIIS and Institute for Society and Globalization at Roskilde University, Denmark
Coffee break
Hopeful Strategies: Female victims of Human Trafficking navigating through arenas of illegality, social networks and categories of victimhood
Julie Lauersen, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
11:10 – 11:30 / The Departed: Inverted social becoming among undocumented West African migrants in Paris, France
Christian Vium, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:30 – 12:30 / Open discussion
Chair/discussant TBC
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15.00 / LUNCH
ROUNDTABLE: Migration Policy Responses after the Arab Spring
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (DIIS)
Alan D. Bersin (US Department of Homeland Security)
Jean-Pierre Cassarino (European University Institute/RDP)
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism (CESEM))
Anne Sofie Westh Olsen (African Development Bank/DIIS)
George Bob-Milliar (University of Ghana/DIIS)
Thomas Thomsen (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Chair: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, DIIS
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
17:00 – ? / Coffee Break
Film and discussion: ‘Connecting Dreams – life histories, crossing borders, new communication technologies’
Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University.Chair: Nauja Kleist, DIIS
RECEPTION w. buffet and drinks (incl. a small walk to Islands Brygge)
DAY 3: 28 September
09:10– 09:50 / Reconfiguring borders, bodies and economies in times of crisis
Keynote presentation: Organized and Disorganized Off-Shore: Maritime Frontiers and Hydrocarbon Mobilities from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Guinea
Brenda Chalfin, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
09:50 – 10:10 / ‘Now there is peace, it is hard to cross’: the changing nature of Zambia-Angola border Oliver Bakewell, International Migration Institute, Oxford University, UK
10:10 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:40
11.40 – 12.00
12:00 –12:45
12:45–13:00
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 16:00 / Sovereign politics, agrarian expansion and new economic zones on the Indonesia-Malaysia border
Michael Eilenberg, Department of Culture and Society – Anthropology, Århus University, Denmark
Coffee Break
The Economy of Spiritual Talents: Religion and Mechanisms of Exchange among Congolese refugees in Kampala, Uganda
Karen Lauterbach, Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Biometric citizenship and alienage – new and re-structuring technology of government of mobility?
Helle Stenum, Roskilde University, Denmark
The global economic crisis and migrant workers in Europe
Vincent Fromentin, Université de Lorraine – CEREFIGE, France and Olivier Damette, Université de Lorraine – BETA, France
Open discussion
Chair: Amanda Hammar. Discussants: Brenda Chalfin and Karen Tranberg Hansen
Closing remarks
Nauja Kleist, DIIS
Lunch
Group Meetings (involving members of research programmes and networks)