Participation of the Working Group on Migration and South-South Borders at the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference 2024

On July 3, 2024, within the framework of the Annual Conference of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) Held in Lisbon, Gisela Zapata (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Thales Speroni (Norbert Elias Centre, France) represented the CLACSO Working Group on Migration and South-South Borders. Both participated in the discussion panel entitled "Research agendas on migration beyond Europe"where the challenges involved in analyzing migrations from a Global South perspective were addressed from a critical perspective.

This panel also included Eduardo Domenech (National University of Córdoba, Argentina), Beatriz Padilla (University of South Florida, USA), Laura Oso (University of A Coruña, Spain), Simone Frangella (Institute of Social Sciences, Portugal), Erika Busse (Macalester College, USA), Lorena Izaguirre (PUC-PE, Peru), and Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero (Casa Grande University, Ecuador). The debate, which fostered an enriching exchange of ideas and perspectives, was moderated by Eleonore Kofman, Tanja Bastia, and Thais França.

This session highlighted the importance of decentralizing migration studies, a theme that will be the focus of the next IMISCOE annual conference, to be held from July 1 to 4, 2025 in Paris.