Emigrants and emigration states: A contested relationship?
Please note: Due to unavoidable circumstances, Roger Waldinger will not be able to join this seminar as advertised. Robin Cohen will now be taking part as a discussant.
In her presentation, Alexandra Délano Alonso will discuss diaspora policies focused on integration and the protection of social rights across borders. The evidence, based mainly on Mexico’s diaspora policies in the United States, engages a larger debate about transnational solidarity focused on equal access to rights from a perspective of shared responsibility and accountability. It considers examples of extension of rights and the expansion of concepts such as integration and citizenship in the context of diaspora policies, as innovative practices and discourses around migration that are being articulated, challenged, and imagined through interactions at multiple scales and across borders between migrants, states, and nonstate actors. The presentation juxtaposes these policies and practices against anti-immigrant discourse and xenophobia that have developed in parallel and examines alternative discourses and practices in response to it.
Date: 3 June 2021, 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: Zoom webinar
Speakers: Alexandra Délano Alonso (The New School, New York City), Robin Cohen (Kellogg College, Oxford)
Organising department: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: julie.adams@sant.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Manolis Pratsinakis (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS))
Part of: COMPAS/SEESOX co-conevened Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoduqqqzgpG9fP_VCPrEG7BpydGP9nZH0G
Audience: Public
Editors: Julie Adams, Nathan Grassi