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Janine Dahinden , co-director of the Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies", discusses together with Manos Dias-Abey the question of how people become ‘migrants’.
Episode 3 of the MMB podcast ‘Migration Unboxed’ asks, how do people become migrantized, and what does this tell us about both migration and citizenship? Host Bridget Anderson invites guests Janine Dahinden and Manoj Dias-Abey to discuss these questions from their different disciplinary perspectives. As a social anthropologist and professor of transnational studies, Janine understands ‘migranticization’ as sets of performative practices that ascribe migratory status to certain people and bodies. Manoj, as a socio-legal scholar, considers how such processes shape the laws and regulations created by state institutions. In bringing together these different approaches our guests raise questions about how race, class and concepts of skill play into migrantization. They also ask whether the academic gaze should in fact focus more on demigrantizing people by recognising how certain laws, such as those regulating labour migration, impact on citizens more widely.
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Guests:
Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on (de)migranticization, mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making.
Manoj Dias-Abey is Senior Lecturer in the University of Bristol Law School. His current research investigates how Britain thinks about and regulates labour migration, and how this has changed over time.
