An interconnected world? Rethinking citizenship and migration

• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
• MPC: Migration Policy Centre
• GlobalCit: Global Citzenship Observatory

We are glad to announce about the conference that is jointly convened by the EUI’s Migration Policy Centre (MPC) and Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)!

The conference will bring insight from a variety of disciplinary, methodological and empirical perspectives to promote a synergetic reflection on key issues in the study of migration and citizenship, including the main intellectual, analytical, and methodological challenges across the two interconnected fields of research. The profusion of mobility patterns and citizenship regimes takes place within an intensified discourse about global crises, systemic fractures, and inequalities that have even led to fear of the complete breakdown of natural and social systems. Migration and citizenship are represented as simultaneously both a symptom of and as a potential remedy to these looming crises. These representations necessarily affect the ways in which we conceptualise the limits, possibilities, boundaries, inclusions and exclusions that are associated with interconnectedness.

Interconnectedness is thus a lens that can promote reflection on the design, practice and effects of citizenship and migration regimes, but also the underlying pathologies and dysfunctions of the governance systems that produce and sustain these regimes, and that necessarily delineate those people that are included and excluded. Questions that are raised include the ways in which various kinds of linkage between individuals and states are governed across time and space and the outcomes of different modalities of governance, including the assessment of impacts on individuals and on groups.