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MIGMOBS at IMISCOE conference in Paris, 1-4 July 2025
The MIGMOBS team has a strong showing at the annual IMISCOE conference in Paris, 1-4 July 2025. Our participation is supported by UCC ISS21 IMISCOE Travel funding.
We have organised two panels, with a total of seven papers involved:
Weds 2nd July (9am) - Ettore Recchi [Chair]
Tracking mobility and migration flows with big data: methodological challenges, theoretical implications
- Ettore Recchi & Tobias Grohmann, 'The evolution of global transnational mobility (1990-2024): constants and variations
- Natalia Debandi, Ana Paula Penchaszadeh, Tobias Grohmann & Ettore Recchi, 'Interpreting regional mobility and migration in Latin America: How institutional, political and economic conditions shape transnational population flows'
Weds 2nd July (10.50am) - Gracia Liu-Farrer [Chair] + Glenda Garelli [Discussant]
The politics of gender and mobility in women’s migration in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Kheira Arrouche, 'Navigating borders: care, intimacy, and resistance in Algeria’s ghettos, maquis, and ngandas'
- Meiyun Meng & Adrian Favell, 'Negotiating singlehood through cross-border movements: Chinese female professionals in Tokyo and Seoul'
- Gracia Liu-Farrer, 'Brokering care: Women migration entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s labor migration'
- Ana Paula Penchaszadeh & Natalia Debandi, 'Not your “brown feminism”: The political subjectivation of Venezuelan migrant women in Argentina'
- Pamungkas Dewanto, '“Do not talk about us without us”: Indonesian Women in Transnational Activism in Malaysia'
Adrian Favell is also Chair on a special panel discussing the 4th edition of Caroline Brettell and James Hollifield's Migration Theory (on Friday 4th July at 9am), and on Wednesday 2nd July at 9am he will speak on a panel on Decentering the far right: what can migration scholars do in defense of movement, conviviality and debordering?
The conference promises to be IMISCOE's largest ever event, and we look forward to meeting many friends and colleagues there.