[Euromixproject.rch] Evidence: material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in migration regimes" - IMISCOE Annual conference 2025 (call for papers : deadline 18 September)

[Laura Odasso]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you a call for papers for the panel "*Evidence:
material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in migration regimes*,"
which will be held at the IMISCOE annual conference (Paris-Aubervilliers,
July 1-4, 2025) and which I have the pleasure of coordinating with M.
Belloni et M. Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp).. The panel description
is below.

If you wish to participate in this panel, please submit a 250-word abstract
in English, along with a title, author(s) name(s), institutional
affiliation(s), and email address(es) to * laura.odasso at college-de-france.fr
<laura.odasso at college>*et Milena.Belloni at uantwerpen.be  by *September 18,
2024*. The panel will take place in person.

Feel free to circulate the call for papers among your contacts.

Best regards,
Laura Odasso

CALL FOR PAPER, IMISCOE Annual Conference 2025

Paris-Aubervilliers, 1st-4th July 2025

Evidence: material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in
migration regimes

Milena Belloni (MIGLOBA, University of Antwerp) Laura Odasso (CY Paris
University, ICMigrations) Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp)


The processes of bordering and debordering, access to territory, residence
rights, and nationality form a complex, multi-layered network of
bureaucratic encounters between migrants and a diverse range of actors
situated in countries of origin, reception, and transit, as well as online.
Migration studies have extensively examined human interactions from a
street- level bureaucratic perspective and have recently turned their focus
to intermediation practises (such as brokerage and infrastructure) and the
use of digital technologies and AI tools for the selection and control of
migrants and exiles.


Building on this body of research, this panel seeks to explore a dimension
that has been largely overlooked in the analysis of migration regimes: how
evidence, in its various forms, shapes both the migration experience and
migration management. The collection, production, and evaluation of
evidence are understood here as collaborative and interactive practices,
which should be analysed within the transnational contexts in which
migrants and their families experience and navigate bureaucratic and legal
processes.


At the intersection of disciplines such as legal sociology, anthropology,
political sciences, linguistics, and philosophy, this panel seeks to gather
different theoretical perspectives on evidence as used in migration
contexts by focusing on materiality, paperwork, affective and discursive
proofs. We welcome intersectional approaches that can provide a nuanced
understanding of how different family configurations and their evidence is
assessed in different bureaucratic settings. Particular attention will be
given to the production of evidence in the Global South, focusing on issues
of trust, assessment, and the hierarchy and complexity of administrative,
personal, and medical/biological evidence. When and why is evidence crucial
in migration? How do officers decide whether material presented is
truthful? How do migrants and their significant others perceive and produce
evidence? What tensions exist between state conceptions of evidence, and
between state perspectives and those of non-state intermediaries and
applicants? How is evidence transformed and transmitted from the Global
South to the Global North? What role does translation and language play in
this process? These are just some of the questions this panel aims to
address.

-- 
*Laura ODASSO*

*Enseignante-chercheuse contractuelle, CY Cergy Paris Université, EMA*
*Research Associate at URMIS Université Paris Cité & at Collège de
France, Chaire "Migrations et Sociétés",  Paris*
*French Collaborative Institute on Migrations fellow, ICMigrations*
*Tel : +33 (0)6 47 37 19 27 / +39 3713905424*
*https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/personne/laura-odasso
<https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/personne/laura-odasso> *
https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com

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