New (Im)Mobilities

New (Im)mobilities: Migration and Race in the Era of Authoritarianism Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) Norrköping, Sweden, 15 – 17 August 2018 Migration researchers usually devote themselves to the study of human mobility across political and cultural borders. Today, however, they are increasingly compelled to reconsider the question of sta- sis, or immobility. Just as it is true that greater numbers of people than ever may be described as migrants and/or as displaced persons, it is equally true that an ever greater part of these migrants find themselves in situations of prohibited movement, be it in the form of detention camps, border con- trols, EU hot spots, eroding asylum rights, territorial bondage, or racialized privileges and barriers that block mobility. Territorial bounds and sedentary life forms always constituted the unspoken norm in research on in- ternational migration and ethnic relations. Today’s multiplication of instruments and policies that prevent people from moving should prompt migration research to rethink the discipline’s theoretical and methodological frameworks and invent new ways of understanding why the ‘age of migration’ also appears to be an era of emerging authoritarianism and immobility. The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University and the Nordic Migration Research (NMR) welcome you to the 19th Nordic Migration Research Confer- ence New (Im)mobilities: Migration and Race in the Era of Authoritarianism. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE The 19th Nordic Migration Research Conference is organised by an organisation committee: Associ- ate Professor Branka Likic-Brboric (Chair), Communications Manager Erik Berggren, Professor Stefan Jonsson, Professor Anders Neergaard, Coordinator Eva Rehnholm, PhD and Researcher Simone Scarpa Senior Lecturer Anita Andersson and Associate Professor Zoran Slavnic. The conference gratefully acknowledges the support from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), The Swedish Research Council (VR), Norrköping Municipality, the Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping Uni- versity (LiU). The conference committee also wishes to thank master’s students, exchange students, doctoral students and other REMESO staff who have generously committed their time to serve as volunteers dur- ing the conference: Kamber Güler, Anna Bredström, Nedzad Mesic, Karin Krifors, Lisa Karlsson Blom, Indre Genelyte, Erdi Öztürk, Karl Dahlqvist, Mavis Hooi, Andrea Nold, Eleonora Pietrazzini, Tanja Matilainen, Bediz Yıldızca, Eleni Solaki, Frida Taghizadeh, Gabriela Giannattasio, Gianinna Pesci, Ham- mam Skaik, Kristin Witzel, Moses N. Appiah, Renate Vitolina, Samineh Asri, Galyna Kutsovska, Mehdi Sufi, Joachim Biela, Mansi Kashatria, Jiao Wang and Shahnaz Shirdelian. INTRODUCTIO Content: Introduction 1 General Program 3 Keynotes and Panels 4 Workshop Program 6 Practical Information 121 REMESO 123 Nordic Migration Research 124 GENERAL PROGRAM Venues: Louis de Geer Concert Hall (LDG) and Täppan University Building (T) August 15 13:00 – 16:00 Pre-conference meetings 16:00 – 20:00 Pre-registration (LDG) 16:00 – 18:00 Civil Society Panel (LDG): Swedish migration and integration policies at the crossroad 18:00 – 20:00 Welcome mingle (LDG) August 16 8.30-9.30 Registration (LDG) 9.30- 10.00 Welcome address (LDG) Professor Roger Klinth - Deputy Vice-Chancellor LiU Associate Professor Erica Righard - Chair person NMR Professor Anders Neergaard, Director REMESO 10.00-11.15 Keynote Address (LDG). Migration and Sedentarity: Towards a New Law of Population of Global capitalism Etienne Balibar, Professor Philosophy, Univ. of Paris I and X and Columbia University. 11.15- 11.45 Coffee 11.45-13.00 Keynote Address (LDG). Global Capitalism, White Supremacy, Patriarchy and Migration Studies Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced. 13.00-14.15 Lunch (LDG) 14.30-16.00 Parallel Workshops (T) 16.00-16.30 Coffee (T) 16.30-18.30 Parallel Workshops (T) 20.00 - Dinner (LDG) August 17 9.00-10.30 Parallel Workshops (T) 10.30-10.45 Coffee (T) 10.45-12.15 Parallel Workshops (T) 12.30-13.30 Lunch (LDG) 13.30-14.00 NMR General Assembly (LDG) 14.00-15.15 Keynote Address (LDG). Nordic Neo-Nationalism, Extreme Speech and the Far Right Peter Hervik, Associate Professor in Migration studies, Aalborg University. 15.15-15.45 Coffee (LDG) 15.45-17.00 Nordic Panel (LDG): The New Right and Populism in the Nordic Countries KEYNOTES AND PANELS 16/8, 10:00-11:15 (LDG) Etienne Balibar Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris I – Sorbonne and Paris X – Nanterre, Columbia University. Migration and Sedentarity: Towards a New Law of Population of Global Capitalism That migrations at Global scale, between continents and nations, have acquired both a new dimen- sion and a new orientation in the last two or three decades, is now fairly obvious and has become a public obsession. The challenge to our governments and societies is political, economic, and moral. Less discussed is the question of immobility and forced sedentarity that this conference wants to address. In the end, it is the complementarity of both phenomena which requires interpretation and collective action. This calls for a complete new definition of the “law of population” of capitalism, which Marx had formulated in terms of the “relative overpopulation” and the “industrial reserve army”, in order to include the geo-economic and geo-political dimensions, and analyze a new type of social conflicts, that are characteristic of post-historical capitalism. 16/8, 11:45-13:00 (LDG) Tanya Golash-Boza Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced. Global Capitalism, White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Migration Studies In her 2008 article in Contemporary Justice Review, Mary Romero (2008: 26) wrote, “There is an enormous ideological and theoretical gulf between immigration research and the sociology of race.” Today this theoretical gulf has begun to be bridged. Scholars have collectively succeeded in arguing for the need to center critical race theory in studies of migration. We take these analyses a step fur- ther, arguing that migration flows and immigrant incorporation are shaped not only by white supremacy, but also by global capitalism and patriarchy. Insofar as migrants are nearly always from the Global South, are usually racialized as non-white, and come to work in a labor market shaped by ex- ploitation, oppression, and patriarchy, it is critical to think of migrant flows and settlement within the context of what bell hooks (2000: 109) describes as a white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy. 17/8 14.00-15.15 (LDG) Peter Hervik Associate Professor in Migration studies, Aalborg University Nordic Neo-Nationalism, Extreme Speech and the Far Right I will look at how the driving force of neo-nationalism comes from a perception of a “nation-in-danger” which is the basis for aggressive exclusionary reasoning and practices on the Danish scene in particular. Through analysis of certain minor critical media events, extreme speech, and ethnographic interviews with social media commentators, I argue that the perception of the "nation-in-danger" is a specific cultural logic that operates recurrently at different levels and, constitutes a form of naturali- zation of popular Danish racial reasoning and public debate. Then I move on to discuss some underly- ing features of this logic. One is the agonism and ritual opposition, where facts cease to play a role in the debate. Another feature is part of the general decline of scholarly authority in the Nordic countries and the emergence of polarizing identity politics, which feeds into anti-intellectualism as a feature that also characterize the contemporary global populism. CIVIL SOCIETY PANEL 15 AUGUST 16.00 – 18.00 (LDG) Swedish Migration and Integration Policies at the Crossroads Haqqi Bahram, The Young Republic. Tove Hovemyr, Fores, expert, Editor of migrationsinfo.se. Martin Modéus, The Right Reverend Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping, Church of Sweden. Lisa Pelling, Chief Analysts, Arena Idé. Michael Williams, Vice Chairperson, The Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups, FARR, Johanna Pira, Vice-chair, Tillsammansskapet (Togethermaking). Carl Tham, (Chair), On REMESO board, prev. Swedish ambassador Berlin and minister Swedish Gov- ernment. NORDIC PANEL 17 AUGUST 15:45 – 17:00 (LDG) The New Right and Populism in the Nordic Countries Martin Bak Jørgensen, Associate Professor, CoMID – Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity, Aalborg University. Katrine Fangen, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Suvi Keskinen, Professor, Department of Social Research/Sociology University of Turku. Diana Mulinari, Professor, Lund University. Stefan Jonsson, (Chair), Professor, Linköping University. WORKSHOPS AND PAPERS 3. Strategies of transnational families – choice, control and resilience Family members and being together with the family are important for most people. However, family life can be enjoyed in many ways, also by living apart. People live apart for different reasons such as work, study or conflict. It is not always clear how much of a choice it is to live apart from the partner, children, grandparents or other close ones. It might be better economically to leave the family behind for long periods and send them money. However, this might have implications for example to children left behind.

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