Call for abstracts for the international seminar “Remote work and emergent mobility regimes. Return, multilocality and processes of re-territorialisation”, to be held in Cádiz (Spain) on November 5–6, 2026. The workshop is an in-person event and is conceived as an intensive academic working space aimed at the collective discussion of ongoing research.
This seminar proposes placing remote work at the center of the analysis of contemporary mobilities, understood as social practices, lived experiences, and relational processes shaped by inequalities, frictions, and regulatory regimes. The focus is on the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization that emerge from these mobilities: shifting forms of connection to places, to local communities, to the State and social protection systems, as well as emerging configurations of households and friendships structured at a transnational level; new geographies of work and tourism; and new tensions between mobility and rootedness.
Please submit your abstract (300–400 words) by June 5, 2026 at the following link: https://forms.gle/rAEnLPodWSdxhWAB7.
Selected participants will be required to submit a draft paper of at least 5,000 words by October 5, 2026.
You can find the detailed CfP attached. We would be very grateful if you could help us circulate it among your network.
The workshop is a joint initiative of the RET-REM (Returning Home, Working Remote. The return mobilities of Southern European migrants in remote working – CNS2024-154626) and REMOTEWORK (Digitalisation of Work and Mobilities in Europe: Return Migration and Digital Nomadism – PID2023-148842NB-I00) research projects. It is organized by Simone Castellani (University of Cádiz), Belén Fernández Suárez (University of A Coruña), and Fabiola Mancinelli (University of Barcelona).
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