SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
CFP 44 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: New Trends in Global Migrations and (Im)mobilities in Anti-immigration Contexts
Room: TBD
Sponsor: Global
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida
Description: This session focuses on recent migration flows and diverse forms of mobility and immobility unfolding globally amid rising anti-immigration discourses and reactions against migrants. We invite presentations examining different world regions, including both the Global North and the Global South.
Papers:
“Affective Survival in Motion: Gendered Migration from Russia and Belarus to Latin America after 2020-2022,” Viktoryia Sliaptsova, University of South Florida
“From Education to Exploitation: Precarious Realities of Bangladeshi Students Abroad in a Migration-Development Context,” Mehnaz Parvin, Florida Atlantic University
“Living on the Edge of Belonging: Racialization, Poverty, and Migrant Lifeworlds in Urban Turkey,” Begüm Ergün, Boston University
“Racial Capitalism, Immigrant Healthcare Access, and the Global Color Line,” Tiffany D. Joseph, Northeastern University and Meredith Van Natta, University of California, Merced
“The Embodied Experience of Crossing and Surviving the Darien Gap,” Monica Salmon Gomez, The New School for Social Research
“Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland,” Nicole Kraus, West Texas A&M University
