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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

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