[Vortrag: Willem Schinkel & Rogier van Reekum (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The social science of migration: between complicity, critique, and abolition

Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Think and Drink colloquium“: In this talk, we seek to contribute to ongoing ways of rethinking what 'migration' is, and how 'migration studies' is implicated in it. We seek to do three things: 1) to show that 'migration' becomes an object of concern (i.e., an object of science but also an object of government) only as an effect of accounting, of the registration of comings and goings within the reference space of the international system of nation-states, amidst which colonial divides are reproduced in part through the registration and visualization of 'migration'; 2) to put forward a perspective in which migration appears as a modality of debt. 'Migration' becomes the outstanding debt of those whose presence on European soil is tolerated because, in the accounting of migration, migrants are people who might not have been there; 3) to lay out possible paths for social science by asking what the role of 'reflexivity' and/or 'critique' is or might be once 'migration' becomes the object of study, and to consider abolition as an alternative.

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