Description
S3 The Architecture of Migration GovernanceDesigning spatial orderings as well as their related spatial divisions, considered to be one of the core activities of architects, are generally discussed as the central focus of the spatio-material implementations of migration governance. Nominally, the built manifestations of any political system are established to maintain a certain degree of control over the movement of people, protecting core values of the systems that created them. On another level, however, these architectures also define, project and fabricate desired social, economic and cultural conditions. Practices of spatial production, therefore, in which histories of the past and realities of the present blend and project cultural values into a desired future, to the great detriment of migrants who fail to meet desired criteria. Within contemporary debates, this has finally been countered by including alternative governance practices that often rely on the network of Indigenous communities, local networks and less visible infrastructures of migration.
The panel will center-stage counter-acts by certain activisms, activist groups and actions vis-à-vis the spatio-material implementations of institutionalized governance processes related to the (non-)control of migration. This call will thus delve into what constitutes the exact agency of alternatives to the architecture of migration governance implementations and how these counter/alternative practices have resulted in certain material-spatial conditions.
| Period | 13 Nov 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Leiden, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |