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The Body of Migrants: How Migration Shapes Human Bodies 
Convenors:
Gianmarco Marzola (Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa)
Isabel Pires (Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon)
Mustafa Abdalla (Free University Berlin)
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Chairs:
Gianmarco Marzola (Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa)
Isabel Pires (Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon)
Format:
Panel
Stream:
Bodies, Affects, Senses, Emotions
:
A11
Sessions:
Friday 9 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Prague

Short Abstract:

Drawing from academic debates, political discourses and cultural representations, this panel seeks to inquire into the transformations that human bodies undergo in contemporary migratory phenomena.

Long Abstract:

Over the last decades, the body of migrants has gained attention within a wide range of academic and political debates. It underwent processes of victimisation in humanitarian discourses and it has been described as a national threat in state politics. Being continuously reframed in aesthetic imaginaries, the migrant body has also been object of eroticisation and exoticisation. In this depiction, post-colonial power relationships, hierarchies of privileges and global inequalities play a major role, being both reason and product of these cultural representations. In this panel, we invite contributions that build upon relevant debates of these topics and that can see beyond the dichotomy between agency and sociocentric representations of the migrant body. We seek contributions that can shed a new light on migration as a constant transformative process and lived experience. Encouraging an ethnographic-based analysis, we seek to discuss how strategies and practices that start from the physical body are enacted by migrant individuals or how, on the contrary, the body is marked by the migratory process.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 9 June, 2023, -
Session 2 Friday 9 June, 2023, -