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PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality
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We are the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Specialist Group on Race, Migration and Intersectionality (RMI). Follow for events, opportunities, updates, and new research. https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/race-migration-and-intersectionality
📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality
Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.

Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
June 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
And Samah Rafiq provided a postcolonial critique of the marketisation of border administration.
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fatima Farakhdust presented results of analysis of culture versus economic arguments on migration.
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sara van Goozen and John Evemy questioned the neutrality of ‘skills’ based criteria as a more morally legitimate migrant criteria.
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An excellent panel brought together varying approaches critiquing the economics of migration, kicking off with an Everyday Political Economy perspective of debt financed migration from Seb Rumsby. @seb-rumsby.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Finally, Patrick Vernon and Nicola Smith analysed the racialisation and heteronormativity of the ‘common people’
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Next was Moé Suzuki’s analysis of humanisation of refugees from a decolonizing approach.
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Busy day for the RMI SG. Started off the day with three great papers looking at migration. First was Hilal Zorba Bayraktar’s paper on Turkish migration policy and Syrian refugees @hilalzbayraktar.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Finally, a great first presentation from PhD student Cian Bear unsettling colonial conceptions of violence.
April 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Then another fantastic contribute from Dr Sadiya Akram from University of Birmingham on anti-racist institutionalism.
April 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Excellent panel yesterday starting with Batikan Bulut batikanbulut.bsky.social on transnational Turkish diasporic communities from Germany. #PSA2025
April 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Fantastic first session with Boya Li @boyalii.bsky.social, Katherine Tyler & Shardia Briscoe-Palmer @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social. Three very distinctive papers, but supper complimentary on migrant identities, Reform and Black masculinity.
April 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
6th panel: Novel Empirical Approaches to Migration--Wed @ 9:30 with: Darn Bolger, Jack Tudor, Amina Ghezal, Lucas Geese, Anastasia Filippidou, and Sevinc Ozturk. Themes: #quantitativemethods, #climagechange, #popularbelief, #migrantmovements
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
5th panel: Unmasking 'mainstream' politics--Tues @ 15:30 with @franamery.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @mikebankole.bsky.social and
@selinsivis.bsky.social. Themes:
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
4th panel: Critiquing the econ. of migration--Tues @ 1:30 w/ @seb-rumsby.bsky.social, @drsvg.bsky.social, Fatima Farakhdust, and Samah Rafiq. Themes: #financialisation, #intersectionality, #culturalanalysis, and #migrationindustry
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
3rd panel: Violence & Borders-- Tuesday @ 9:30 with @hilalzbayraktar.bsky.social, Leou Yang, @moesz.bsky.social, and Patrick Vernon. Themes: #migrationlaw, #hostileenvironment, #humanisation, and #intersectionality
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
2nd Panel: Critical Theory & Traditional Questions in Politics--with @researchwitheden.bsky.social, @batikanbulut.bsky.social, Sadiya Akram, & Cian Bear. Themes: #Diasporas, #migrantlabourers, #policing, #decolonialism
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
1st panel: Amplifying Everyday Perspectives of Identify--Mon @ 13:30 with @boyalii.bsky.social, Katharine Tyler, & @cecigialdini.bsky.social/@mattiazeba.bsky.social, @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social Themes: #ethnography, #migrantvoices, #queeradvocacy, #euroscepticism, #intersectionality, #ethnicity
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
March 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM