Aktuality

Geopolitics and Transnational Migration

Friday 25th October 2019

8:30 - 16:00, Husova 4a, Prague 1

International conference organised by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.

The conference aims to discuss how the changing political economy of migration interacts with emerging global governance for migration. It will foreground transnationalizing claims stemming from distinct geopolitical perspective and the need to develop transnational norms and requirements addressing economic, political, social and cultural rights of migrants. The last two talks will be devoted to the problem of reproduction and mobility and gender in migration.

Keynote speakers:

• Carl-Ulrik Schierup, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden

• Stefan Rother, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Eleonore Koffman, Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics

• Monika Palmberger, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Wien

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Side event:

• Antonio Cossa, visual artist and photographer