Event

Many migrants around the world inhabit precarious statuses: living either partly or fully outside the boundaries of legal membership in their countries of residence, with consequences for their access to social services, rights and membership. This workshop explores ways migrants navigate incomplete membership and gaps in access with international participants addressing types of migrant precariousness and temporary statuses; how migrant precarity affects access to rights and services, ranging from education to health, to land ownership and local voting; how migrants have obtained pathways to membership; and the spaces in which migrants have pushed to acquire both rights, services and membership through civic engagement.

Workshop Participants

• Amada Armenta, University of California, Los Angeles
• Osman Balkan, Swarthmore College
• Tanya Basok, University of Windsor, Canada
• Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida
• Nicola Delvino, University of Oxford, England
• Angela Garcia, University of Chicago
• Natasha Iskander, New York University
• Nnamdi Iwuora, International Organization for Migration, Senegal
• Barbara Laubenthal, University of Texas at Austin
• Froilan Malit, Gulf Labour Markets and Migration (GLMM) Programme
• Thulisile Mphambukeli, University of the Free State, South Africa
• Ruxandra Paul, Amherst College
• Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine
• Stephanie Schwartz, University of Pennsylvania
• Paloma Villegas, California State University, San Bernardino
• Sarah Willen, University of Connecticut