Session 2.
IMMOBILITIES / Mobilities

A dialogue on the relations between migration, globalization, power, hegemony, desire, materiality and “modernity”, in the form of a two-part seminar focused on the complementary dimensions of mobility and immobility. The first part will discuss the global imaginaries and forms of subjectivity sustaining the desire to move. The second part will focus the border(ing) processes that are deployed to control migration and their effects on the daily lives of the people in motion.

Contributions:
Simone Frangella (ICS-UL): Discovering identity in route: Brazilian migrants and interdictions
Francesco Vacchiano (ICS-UL): A multidimensional fence: an anthropology of border devices across Gibraltar
Gabriele Del Grande (Fortress Europe): “I’m with the bride”. Syrian refugees and im/mobility in Europe
Alexandra D’Onofrio (University of Manchester): Immobilizing love. Detention centres, family ties and bureaucratic violence in a border regime

Discussants: Marzia Grassi (ICS-UL Lisbon); Cristiana Bastos (ICS-UL Lisbon)

Programa

Anyone is welcome to join the discussion, the event is free of charge, no pre-inscription required