Sex, migration og en ny verdens (u)orden

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form no later than Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 12.00 noon.

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DIIS and Barnard College, New York, host this international conference connecting migration, gender and sexuality to recent populist uprisings and changing dynamics and meanings of neoliberalism or post-neoliberalism.

The conference brings together a distinguished group of international scholars addressing these issues in multiple national and transnational contexts.

Drawing on research in countries such as the USA, UK, EU, Nigeria, Argentina, Mexico, The Caribbean and Hong Kong, the invited speakers analyze the following questions among others:

• How might we understand migration, gender and sexuality in light of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen?
• How can these current political transformations be read in terms of the movement of bodies and capital across borders? 
• How might we understand phenomena as different as human trafficking, sex work migration, marriage migration, deportation, asylum, anti-immigration sentiments and intensified border control in light of these recent global and political transformations?
• How are these transformations reflected and understood in different contexts across the world?

The conference, which is jointly organised by DIIS and Barnard College, New York, is a full day event incl. free sandwich lunch, coffee and drinks served at DIIS.

The conference is the concluding conference for the research project “Gender, Justice and Neoliberalism”. Read more.

Pre-event

Wednesday 31 May DIIS and Barnard College host a film screening at the Danish Film Institute of the award-winning documentary Becky’s Journey followed by a critical debate on sex work, migration and human trafficking. Read more about the pre-event here.

Speakers

Lisa Duggan, Professor, New York University, USA

Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Yale University, USA

Bridget Anderson, Professor, COMPAS, University of Oxford, UK

Eric Fassin, Professor, Université Paris 8, France

Kamala Kempadoo, Professor, York University, Canada

Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

Sealing Cheng, Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mark Padilla, Associate Professor, Florida International University, USA

Mario Pecheny, Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Svati Shah, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Ana Amuchástegui, Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco, Mexico

Abosede George, Associate Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA

Sine Plambech, Researcher, DIIS, Denmark

Moderators

Janet Jakobsen, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA

Kerwin Kaye, Associate Professor, Wesleyan University, USA

Tami Navarro, Associate Director, Barnard College, New York, USA

Programme

10.00-10.15

Welcome

Sine Plambech
Elizabeth Bernstein

10.15-12.00

New world (dis)order in the era of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen

Bridget Anderson: The left behind – Brexit, migration and empire

Lisa Duggan: Up against "The Wall" – intersectional organizing and the politics of migration at the US Women's March 

Inderpal Grewal: Racial sovereignty, authoritarian patriarchy and the security state – reflections on contemporary politics in the USA and India

Eric Fassin: France, migration and Le Pen

Moderator: Janet Jakobsen

12.00-12.30

Sandwich lunch for all participants

12.30-14.00

Borders, sex & migration: ethnographic perspectives from Hong Kong, India, The Dominican Republic & Nigeria

Sealing Cheng
Mark Padilla
Svati Shah
Sine Plambech

Moderator: Tami Navarro

14.00-14.30

Coffee and tea

14.30-16.00

Sex, migration and neoliberalism in the global south

A roundtable with:

Kamala Kempadoo
Mario Pecheny
Ana Amuchástegui
Abosede George

Moderator: Kerwin Kaye

16.00-16.30

Reception – a glass of wine

Practical information

The conference will be in English.