Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective

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Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet

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Screenshot of an online conference featuring several people watching and a powerpoint presentation about "Immigration politics: typology and 'convergence'"
Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #203 panel | migpog Room: Online room 2 While colonialism is a global phenomenon, discussions of how it has influenced contemporary migration governance are usually confined to a handful of cases in Europe. This panel presents four papers emerging from a British Academy-funded interdisciplinary research project, which, taking colonialism’s global scope as a starting point, aims to decentre this analysis – broadening geographically and deepening temporally our understanding of how colonialism has shaped migration policies worldwide. Such a perspective questions the presumption that “settler societies” and ex-metropoles developed different, rather than similar, migration politics from their involvement in colonial empires; the frequent exclusion of Southern “settler” countries from analysis; the tendency to overlook empires based outside of Europe; a relative lack of detailed historical engagement in many social-scientific accounts of colonial influence; and a frequent lack of comparison in these examinations. Drawing insights from a range of social science and humanities fields, this project aims to help forge a global understanding of how the many identities shaped by colonization and empire shape the governance of international mobility in today’s world.