Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe

Track 1: The notion of the border

• Borderlands, borderscapes, borderlines, border regimes

• Borders and nomadism, diaspora, travel, heterotopias, and otherness

• In-between spaces, hybrid spaces, and threshold spaces vis-à-vis border fortification, militarisation, enclaves, ghettos, walling urbanism, state territories

• Bridging political, social, national, gender, religion and identity borders, boundaries and communities

• No borders, open borders, and border-crossing 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 of the moving populations.

• Collective and sharing practices in migrants’ informal settlements and camps

• Social solidarity, connections between the social struggles of the locals and the migrants; social philanthropy, humanitarianism, volunteering and NGO’s industry

• Migrants’ social centres, squatted buildings, and self-organised housing projects

Track 3: New intersectional enclosures

• New enclosure policies, forced displacement, dispossession and grabbing of the means of production and reproduction, permanence of so-called primitive accumulation

• Class aspects of immigration, cheap workforce, surplus reserved army of unemployment

• Emergence of nationalistic-racist-fascist rhetoric and practice, (for instance, racist locals’ committees, the role of church and media)

• Gendered aspects of immigration (women, lgbtq+, sexism, gendered violence, pregnancy)

• Age aspects of immigration (children and elderly people)

• Disability and immigration

• Cultural re-appropriation 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