It is with great pleasure that I will be presenting my paper "De-migranticizing Migrancy: Approaching Migration and (In)mobility analysis through Rhizomatic thinking, Feminist epistemes and the Embodied Experience of Migration" at the University of Oxford’s Migration and Mobility Network and Nuffield College's "Measuring Migration" Conference the "Measuring Migration: How? When? Why?" Conference: Univ. of Oxford, 9-10 June 22
I will be speaking on June 9th, and my paper will address the following:
International migration analysis frequently addresses mobility phenomena through state-centric macrolevel descriptions. This “top down” approach is helpful to portray general patterns and highlight structural issues that contribute to mobility, but often omits “the figure of the migrant”. Feminist phenomenology demonstrates the importance of articulating “the body” as social constructions of expressions of biopolitical relations that structure ontological positioning in the world. Heeding to the plea to de-migranticize migration analysis, I argue that it is imperative to redress international migration analysis “through the body” by reframing migrancy through feminist phenomenology and reflexivity. Through rhizomatic thinking, illustrated with narratives on the Mexico-United States borderlands, I propose a re-conceptualization of migrancy that embodies positionality argued through feminist narratives as imperative to the centre of migration and (in)mobility research. Hope to see you there! 😘
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