Rethinking Migration in Critical Times: Governance, Agency and the Politics of Belonging - Special POLSIS/IRIS/CEDAR Seminar

Event overview

Contemporary migration governance is marked by heightened politicisation, restrictive policy shifts, and growing tensions between international norms and national practices.

In this context, migration is increasingly managed through fragmented and overlapping legal, political, and institutional frameworks that produce uneven and often exclusionary outcomes. 

This panel brings together leading scholars to examine how migration is being reconfigured in what can be understood as “critical times,” characterised by democratic strain, geopolitical instability, and shifting global orders.

Event speakers

Michelle Pace (Visiting Scholar, Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) and the co-author (with Sarah El-Abd) of "Un-Welcome to Denmark: The paradigm shift and refugee integration" (Manchester University Press)

Nando Sigona (IRIS & Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham)

Kamran Khan (School of Education, University of Birmingham)

Event Chair and Convenor

Tim Haughton (POLSIS & CEDAR, University of Birmingham)