Subjection and Struggle of Non-Movers, Migrants, and Refugees: A Dual Marginal Space and the Nation-State
Subjection and Struggle of Non-Movers, Migrants, and Refugees: A Dual Marginal Space and the Nation-State
Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: SJES030 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC02 Economy and Society (host committee) Language: English
We live in a turbulent age marked by war and upheaval, oppression and expropriation. In a world with a multipolar power structure, the dominance of the Global North results in an overwhelming concentration of human tragedy in the South. People cross borders as migrants and refugees to survive. Non-movers become migrants and refugees who often end up persecuted, starving, and living in extreme poverty in villages like prisons without walls. When migrants and refugees move to the North they flow into the bottom of society. Refugees appear on streets and in camps and shelters viewed as a threat to public security and national sovereignty, prompting governments to adopt stricter immigration policies, labeling people as illegal migrants and displaced persons. Non-movers, migrants, and refugees are in a dual marginal space relative to the nation-state in their own and host countries. Denied legal protections and institutional support, they are subjected to control and surveillance. Yet, non-movers, migrants, and refugees resist and struggle. They challenge the boundaries set by nation-states as they struggle to survive. As a struggling multitude, they have the latent power of human liberation on the border between the worlds of oppression and liberation. Their border worlds are diverse.
The proposed panel seeks to explore:
- Can we contrast dual marginality experienced by non-movers, migrants, and refugees?
- How non-movers, migrants, and refugees evaluate their situation?
- In what ways do non-movers, migrants, and refugees differ by ethnicity and gender?
- How can sociology conceptualize situations, experiences and values of non-movers, migrants, and refugees?
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