Seeking Panelists and Chair for Dominance and Migration Networks under Globalisation
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Amal Shahid
Oct 5, 2018, 3:39:46 AM10/5/18
to LAWCHA 2019: Forum to find co-panelists
Hello,
I am a third year PhD candidate working on casual labour history in colonial India. Along with two others, we are looking for at least 2-3 more presenters and a chair for our panel. The panel is interdisciplinary and so far includes work on Asia, but research on other regions within this theme are welcome. The summary is as follows:
Migration is viewed as an ineluctable product of globalization under capitalism resulting in increased mobility amidst disruptive infrastructural developments. The classical surplus labour model that comes to us via Harris and Todaro is generally accepted for most economies. Recent research on Asia has but underlined the presence of intermediaries, chain migration and more circulatory than one-way rural-urban migration. Still, the overall narrative on Asian migration considers socio-economic factors, ethnicity, or states of control as major push and pull factors and gives undue weight to the importance of patron-client relationships, distinct ecological niches or the lure of urbanization as a driver of migration from remote/rural areas. This interdisciplinary panel explores links between migration, work and scales of interaction, with the objective of moving away from the conventional teleological informed vocabulary through the cases of refugee, casual labour and regional migration. The broad argument of the panel highlights not only the agency of labour/people, but also the significance of maintaining contact with networks in the rural/migration source. The papers examine the pervasiveness of global scales, broad historical trends as well as itinerants’ perceptions and reactions. The papers range from the disciplines of history, anthropology and sociology, and, hence, cover a variety of time periods to show how investments and globalization have come to shape migratory flows in Asia and the wider world.
I am a third year PhD candidate working on casual labour history in colonial India. Along with two others, we are looking for at least 2-3 more presenters and a chair for our panel. The panel is interdisciplinary and so far includes work on Asia, but research on other regions within this theme are welcome. The summary is as follows:
Migration is viewed as an ineluctable product of globalization under capitalism resulting in increased mobility amidst disruptive infrastructural developments. The classical surplus labour model that comes to us via Harris and Todaro is generally accepted for most economies. Recent research on Asia has but underlined the presence of intermediaries, chain migration and more circulatory than one-way rural-urban migration. Still, the overall narrative on Asian migration considers socio-economic factors, ethnicity, or states of control as major push and pull factors and gives undue weight to the importance of patron-client relationships, distinct ecological niches or the lure of urbanization as a driver of migration from remote/rural areas. This interdisciplinary panel explores links between migration, work and scales of interaction, with the objective of moving away from the conventional teleological informed vocabulary through the cases of refugee, casual labour and regional migration. The broad argument of the panel highlights not only the agency of labour/people, but also the significance of maintaining contact with networks in the rural/migration source. The papers examine the pervasiveness of global scales, broad historical trends as well as itinerants’ perceptions and reactions. The papers range from the disciplines of history, anthropology and sociology, and, hence, cover a variety of time periods to show how investments and globalization have come to shape migratory flows in Asia and the wider world.
If interested, please write to me: amal....@graduateinstitute.ch
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