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Dear colleagues,
Given the next IMISCOE conference to be held in Paris in July 2025, we are
collecting papers for the panel below. For those interested in presenting a
paper in this panel, please send us (k.sobczak-szelc@uw.edu.pl AND
stefano.degliuberti@irps.cnr.it) a 250-word abstract along with the
name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details of the author(s) by 06/10/2024
at the latest.

The call for papers for the panel is below and attached.
We assume that the panel will be held in person.

Please share this call within your networks.

Thanks and best wishes,

Stefano degli Uberti & Karolina Sobczak-Szelc


*Rethinking cities in migration decision-making. Perspectives from the
Global South.*

*Panel organizers*:

- Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Centre of Migration Research, University of
Warsaw, Poland.
- Stefano degli Uberti, Institute for Research on Population and
Social Policies, National Research Council, Italy.

This panel aims to explore and advance the conceptual and empirical
understanding of the process of migration decision-making by a renewed
analysis on the nexus between cities and migration in the Global South.

While in migration studies a growing interest is directed to the impacts of
multicausality of migration decision-making, including forced conditions to
move, we invite attention to the urban contexts that are the major pole of
attractions for multiple mobility networks, of internal, transit,
intra-regional as well transnational migrations. Capitals and increasingly
more secondary cities in the Global South display greater resilience and
creativity becoming key socio-spatial contexts where decisions to migrate
or stay take place. The panel will examine how cities and forced or
voluntary migration are intertwined in shaping the aspirations,
capabilities and practices of mobility and immobility. By examining cities
as both a refuge and a destination under forced conditions, we gain deeper
insight into how urban environments influence migration trajectories.

This panel welcomes contributions based on empirical research that address
issues through a historical-ethnographic approach. We invite you to explore
the various modes of interactions that take place among urban dwellers and
how they enable a more fine-grained understanding of the complexity of
migrants=E2=80=99 trajectories, and their fragmented experiences of social =
becoming
through the life course. Thus, an approach to cities as social and
historically changing contexts where individuals creatively shape their
living experiences and trajectories of (im)mobility offers the possibility
of going beyond an understanding of cities as a space for enduring failures=
.

Stefano degli Uberti

Senior Researcher
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National Research Council - Institute for Research on Population and
Social Policies (Italy)
Phone +39 06492724269 / +39-3403346632
E-mail: stefano.degliuberti@irpps.cnr.it
ORCID: 0000-0001-7415-588X

2024 (with R. Altin). Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border
Areas of Italy: Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of
(Im)mobility. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01125-0
2022 (with R. Altin). Placed in Time. Migration Policies and
Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015662
2017 (with B. Riccio). Imagining greener pastures? Shifting
perceptions of Europe and mobility within contemporary Senegal. A
diachronic grounded perspective. https://dx.doi.org/10.3240/88710