Call for Papers: Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe

Topics

Track 1: The notion of the border

• Borderland, borderscape, borderline, border regime
• Border and nomadism, diaspora, travel, heterotopy and otherness
• Spaces in-between, hybrid spaces, threshold spaces vis-à-vis border fortification,
  militarization, enclaves, ghettos, walling urbanism, state territories
• Bridging political, social, national, gender, religion and identity borders, boundaries
  and communities
• No border, crossing borders and open borders struggles, movements and activism

Track 2: Migrants commoning practices

• Autonomy of migration and transnationalism
• Mobile common space. Strategies and practices for survival, struggle, solidarity,
  networking, communication, mutual aid and commoning of the moving populations
• Collective and sharing practices in informal migrants settlements and camps
• Social solidarity, connection between the social struggles of the locals and the
  immigrants vis-à-vis social philanthropy, volunteering and NGO’s industry
• Migrants’ social centers, squats and self-organized housing projects

Track 3: New intersectional enclosures

• New enclosure policies, forced displacement, dispossession and grabbing of the
  means of production and reproduction, permanence of the so-called primitive
  accumulation
• Class aspects of immigration, cheap workforce, surplus reserved army of
  unemployment
• Emergence of nationalistic-racist-fascist rhetoric and practice, (racist committees of
  residents, the role of church and media)
• Gender aspects of immigration (women, lgbtq populations, sexism, gender violence,
  pregnancy)
• Age aspects of immigration (children and elderly people)
• Disability and Immigration
• Cultural reappropriation of moving populations
• Slavery, trafficking, human organs’ trafficking

Track 4: State and Hyperstate migrant policies

• Fortress Europe, detention centers, hot spots, relocation policies, new border fences
• Law geographies, divisions between refugees and immigrants, criminalization and
  illegalization of border crossing, the right to citizenship and asylum
• Fear policies, xenophobia and biopolitics
• Health geographies, biosecurity and border controls
• Neocolonialism, geopolitics and war

Track 5: Representations and communication

• Cultural representations of the other
• Landscape and representations of the other
• Newcomers – new ideas – new cultural relations
• Art and multicultural representations
• Newcomers and e-books, e-sharing, horizontal e-actions
• Other history, other museum, oral history of newcomers

Submission Procedure

Researchers are invited to submit before February 10, 2017, a presentation proposal of 500 words. Abstract should include: title, keywords, track name, name of the author(s), name of the presenter, affiliation and full contact details. Authors will be notified by February 20, 2016, about the status of their proposals. There are no fees but we do not have funds to cover travel expenses. The organizers expect an edited volume to result from the gathering.

Important Dates

Abstracts Submission Deadline: February 10, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2017
Conference: Mytilene, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean,
September 28 – October 1, 2017