Conference in Norrköping 3 - 5 September

Kåkenhus, Norrköping.
Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping. Photo credit: Peter Modin

The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO), IKOS, Linköping University, will organize an international conference from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2024. The conference, titled "Legal Status, Temporality, and Integration - Changing Migration Regimes and Precarization of Citizenship," is being organized by REMESO, Linköping University, in collaboration with The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC) at Toronto Metropolitan University.

The event, which will take place in Norrköping, aims to gather approximately 30 migration researchers from Sweden, the EU, and Canada. Notably, this project is financially supported by the Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (FORTE - Decision No: GD-2023/0034).

The primary responsibility for organizing the conference lies with Professor Zoran Slavnic of REMESO, Linköping University, who, alongside Professor Anna Triandafyllidou of CERC, Toronto Metropolitan University, oversees the academic content of the conference.

Conference schedule

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Registration opens 11:00

13:00-13:30 Welcome
Organizing Committee

SESSION 1: Migration and state sovereignty - the principle of freedom vs freedom from principles

Session organizer and moderator: Zoran Slavnic, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

13:30-14:30
Keynote 1: Migration and state sovereignty: citizenship ‘from below’?
Simone Baglioni, University of Parma

14:30-15:00
Reintegration Governance: The role of origin states sovereignty
Katie Kuschminder, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

15:00-15:30
Public education from the perspective of cultural wars, racialized securitization and militarization of civil society in Sweden

Mathias Ericson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

15:30-16:00 FIKA

16:00-16:30
Economies of dispossession: Expanding carceral geographies in and beyond the Swedish welfare state and the politics of racial devaluation

Sarah Philipson Isaac, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

16:30-17:00
Migrant integration revisited: Framing race, gender, and precarity in circular labour migration in the South African context

Xolani Tsabalala, REMESO, Linköpings University, Sweden

17:00-18:00 Conference meetings

19:00 - EVENING BUFFET IN UTSIKTEN

Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

SESSION 2. Autonomy of migration – subjective aspects of mobility vs institutional constrains

Session organizer and moderator: Karin Krifors, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

08:30-09:30
Keynote 2: The autonomy of migration, cultures of rejection and failed migration policy
Manuela Bojadzijev, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany

09:30-10:00
Im/mobile commoning between and across Sweden and France

Maja Sager, Lund University, Sweden

10:00-10:30
Thinking about policy failure. Or, democracy in migration policy
Bernd Kasparek, Humbolt university Berlin, Germany

10:30-11:00 FIKA

11:00-11:30
Fear of small numbers: The instrumentalisation of hybrid threats to transform immigration policies
Jukka Könönen, University of Helsinki, Finland

11:30-12:00
Affective citizenship and categorical complexity: second generation migrants in the Arabian Gulf
Laavanya Kathiravelu, University of Oslo, Norway

12:00-13:30 LUNCH – VISUALISERINGSCENTER C

 

SESION 3. Swedish migration regime - restrictive turn and permanent temporariness

Session organizer and moderator: Kristoffer Jutvik, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

13:30-14:30
Keynote 3: The racialization of migration - from the racial Swedish state to racist state policies

Irena Molina, Uppsala University, Sweden

14:30-15:00
Membership policies in the Swedish context: Observations about ongoing policy processes and on the notion of time and temporality

Karin Borevi, Södertörn University, Sweden

15:00-15:30
Temporal injustice and negotiations of time: School staff and social workers navigating the deportability of upper secondary students in Sweden

Sofi Jansson-Kheshavarz, Linköping University, Sweden

15:30-16:00 FIKA

16:00-16:30
Overcrowding in Sweden 2012–2022 - Understanding trends and variations in overcrowding during a decade marked by fluctuating migration, economic inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Martin Grander, Malmö University, Sweden

16:30-17:00
“Why was my case delayed?” A Study of the Swedish Migration Lottery in 2016 and its Consequences

Kristoffer Jutvik & Branka Likic-Brboric REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

17:00-18:00 Conference meetings

19:00 - CONFERENCE DINNER IN ENOTEKET

Thursday, September 5, 2024

SESSION 4: Canadian migration regime – – integration paradoxes and new spaces of precarity

Session organizer and moderator: Irina Isaakyan, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

08:30-09:30
Keynote 4. Regimes of temporariness and permanence in late capitalism: Conceptual and comparative reflections

Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

09:30-10:00
The Canadian Indifference Industry – extractivist think tanks and the promotion of migration disinformation

Asher Goldstein, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

10:00-10:30
Policy Categories and Lived Experiences of Temporary Status: A Study of International Students in Canada

Marshia Akhbar, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

10:30-11:00 FIKA

11:00-11:30
Where to from here? A critical assessment of Canada’s region-specific immigration programs

Melissa Kelly, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

11:30-12:00
Complex Precarity: Towards a reconceptualization of irregular migration as a reality and a policy category

Shiva Mohan, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

12:00-13:30 LUNCH – VISUALISERINGSCENTER C

 

LEGAL STATUS, TEMPORALITY AND INTEGRATION

13:30-14:30 On the panel:

Simone Baglioni, University of Parma

Manuela Bojadzijev, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany

Irena Molina, Uppsala University, Sweden

Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Moderator: Claudia Tazreiter, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

 

Photo credit: Thor Balkhed