The first STS-MigTec Paper Workshop invited scholars to present and discuss current work in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research. We invite you to submit your paper proposal, which are concerned with (but not limited to) the following questions:

• How are migrant subjects shaped and affected by migration and border technologies? How do migrant subjects enact, subvert, appropriate them?

• How do migration and border technologies shape transnational migration and border regimes?

• How are migration/ border technologies and border control practices co-shaped?

• What is the role of alternative, interventionist or oppositional technologies and infrastructures that are enacted by migrant subjects themselves or other actors in solidarity with migrant subjects

• Which material and epistemic politics are involved in this enactment?

• What power effect does such involvement produce?

• What are ways to critically and publicly engage with technologies and infrastructures of migration and border control?

• Variety of topics linking STS and critical migration/border/security/surveillance studies is welcomed.
  
  

Panels

Panel #1: Material Enactments beyond Migration Management Infrastructures
Fredy Mora-Gámez and Eric Snodgrass, Linköping University

Panel #2: The Politics of (Non)Knowledge in the (Un)Making of Migration
Stephan Scheel, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

Panel #3: Open Panel: Agency – Alterings
Olga Usachova, University of Padua

Panel #4: Open Panel: Biometrics – Imaginaries – Materialities
Jasper van der Kist, University of Manchester

Panel #5: Border Control Technologies
Nina Amelung, Universidade de Lisboa  & Vasilis Galis, IT University of Copenhagen

Program

Conference program: please find here

About the event

The STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshops invite scholars to present and discuss current work in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research. The network organizes annual workshop, which are bigger events with several thematic and open panels and keynotes, as well as workshops for specific funding and publication projects.