<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I would like to share with you a call for papers for the panel "<b>Evidence: material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in migration regimes</b>," which will be held at the IMISCOE annual conference (Paris-Aubervilliers, July 1-4, 2025) and which I have the pleasure of coordinating with <span style="text-align:justify">M. Belloni et M. Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp).</span>. The panel description is below.</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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 <em style="text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:laura.odasso@college" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,90,149);text-decoration:none">laura.odasso@college-de-france.fr<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></em><span style="text-align:justify">et<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;text-align:start"></span><span class="gmail-Object" role="link" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT516_ZmEmailObjectHandler" style="color:rgb(0,90,149)"><a href="mailto:Milena.Belloni@uantwerpen.be" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,90,149);text-decoration:none;font-style:italic;text-align:start">Milena.Belloni@uantwerpen.be</a> </span></span> by<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>September 18, 2024</strong>. The panel will take place in person.</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Feel free to circulate the call for papers among your contacts.</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,<br>Laura Odasso</font></p><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-weight:bold">CALL FOR PAPER, IMISCOE Annual Conference 2025</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">Paris-Aubervilliers, 1</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt;vertical-align:4pt">st</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">-4</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt;vertical-align:4pt">th<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">July 2025</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-weight:bold">Evidence: material, biomedical, discursive and affective proofs in migration regimes</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Milena Belloni<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-style:italic">(MIGLOBA, University of Antwerp)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Laura Odasso<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-style:italic">(CY Paris University, ICMigrations)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Mieke Vandenbroucke<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-style:italic">(University of Antwerp)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:timesnewromanps;font-style:italic"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">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.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">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.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:aptos,aptos_embeddedfont,aptos_msfontservice,calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:timesnewromanpsmt">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.</span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif">Laura ODASSO</span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif">Enseignante-chercheuse contractuelle, CY Cergy Paris Universit<em>é</em>, EMA</span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif">Research Associate at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif">URMIS Université Paris Cité</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:georgia,serif">& at Collège de France, Chaire "Migrations et Sociétés",  Paris</span></em></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">French Collaborative Institute on Migrations fellow, ICMigrations</span></em></span></div><div><em style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Tel : +33 (0)6 47 37 19 27 / +39 3713905424</span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/personne/laura-odasso" target="_blank">https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/personne/laura-odasso</a> </span></em><em style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></em></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT192_com_zimbra_url" style="color:rgb(0,90,149)"><span class="gmail-Object" id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