The research group MeDiMi welcomes proposals for presentations on legal, political, and everyday struggles concerning the human rights of migrants in today’s societies.
Context
The conference is taking place at a time of political and social change. In recent years, the human rights of migrants are increasingly and systematically being called into question. Migration laws and policies are becoming ever more restrictive, and everyday discourse is frequently dominated by hostility toward migrants and the very idea of a migration society. Such reinforced exclusionary practices have led to a widespread perception that critical and rights-based perspectives are being marginalized. Actors who mobilize human rights when striving for the inclusion of migrants frequently find themselves on the defensive, trying to protect “achievements” made during a phase of expansion against regression (“human rights backlash”). We may currently be witnessing a fundamental change in a constellation that has emerged over the past 30 years, in which human rights have opened up a discursive space for challenging migration control and exclusionary practices.
Call for Papers: Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences
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