Connecting interventions: Rethinking a decade of migration research and rights activism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

​Image credit: Joahna Kuiper / Better Images of AI / Little data houses / CC-BY 4.0

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Workshop

King's College London

26 February 2025

By invitation only

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2025 marks a decade from the big year of migration in Europe. We have seen much mobilization and research by civil society and grassroots organisations, journalists, academics and many activists. Many scandals about violations of rights were brought to public attention. Complaints, legal cases and submissions of evidence before national, European and international institutions became key features of this mobilization. Yet, little seems to have changed, as states have introduced more and more repressive, and often unlawful, measures in the name of passive and silent publics who allegedly want border and migration ‘control’. Many of these measures work through opaque digital technologies, which are hard to access and comprehend, protected through a constellation of commercial and state secrecy, private-public networks and financial flows. 

 

This event proposes to assess where we are - what is happening and what is changing - in order to think about the shape of things to come. It will offer the opportunity of an open and frank conversation (Chatham House rule) that will bring together experts and practitioners to take stock of the last decade with a critical lens and a constructive approach. What kinds of tactics, mobilizations, claims and devices do we envisage for the future? What interventions do we need? What kind of collaboration?

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12.30-13.10 Arrival and lunch

13.10-13.30 Introductions

13.30-15.00 2025: Taking stock of a decade of mobilization

15.00-15.30 Break

15.30-17.00 Thinking together the future: the shape of things to come

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