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Beyond the 'Suffering Subject' in Migration Research II 
Convenors:
Elena Borisova (University of Sussex)
Jérémie Voirol (University of Manchester)
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Format:
Panel
:
Lanyon Building (LAN), 01/052
Sessions:
Tuesday 26 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel aims to generate insights about how migrants carve out lives worth living without reducing their experiences to the suffering inflicted by oppressive migration regimes, and what purchase current trends in anthropologies of the good and morality have to offer to migration research.

Long Abstract:

This panel aims to generate insights about how migrants carve out lives worth living and create the good in different domains of their lives without reducing their experiences to the suffering inflicted by oppressive migration regimes. It explores what analytical and empirical purchase current trends in anthropologies of the good and morality have to offer to migration research. As Katerina Rozakou argued (2019), our gaps in knowledge about migration originate not necessarily from the lack of access to certain sites, such as refugee camps and detention centres, but from our epistemological imagination, which colours our writing with 'particular aesthetic modalities'. Although recent research on migration has paid attention to the relationship between (im)mobility and the imaginative, the desired, and the hoped for, much of current migration scholarship is still produced along the lines of 'suffering slot anthropology' (Robbins 2013). Without downplaying the importance of critically analysing the issues of power, violence and inequalities, we ask, how can moving beyond the 'analytic of desperation' (Elliot 2020) help us understand the multiplicity of lived experiences of (im)mobility in their fullness? How can we balance out the focus between suffering, violence and power with attention to the good? And how can this approach further destabilise the worn out dichotomies, such as forced/voluntary, economic/humanitarian migration premised upon different hierarchically organised types of suffering that dominate public and policy-making discourse? We welcome submissions grounded in fine-grained ethnographic research across different contexts that look at migrants' and their families' projects of self-fashioning and creating valuable lives.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 26 July, 2022, -
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