Special Event

Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas

Questions of migration are being debated across the globe with alarming urgency. Yet, contemporary forms of migration and the debates that arise from them are underscored by historical processes often rooted in concerns related to race, gender, sexuality, labor, class, and the state. This workshop will pull together scholars committed to the study of migration to and in the Americas during the modern period. Our aim is to bring together a small group of scholars whose historical engagement with migration studies can speak across histories of migration often bracketed into smaller subfields and Area Studies. In this regard, we hope to facilitate a larger conversation that underscores the various historical concerns that have produced mobility for some and immobility for others, and, at times, sustained shifting relations between mobility and immobility.

For more details on this event, please visit: Mobilities and Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas

Workshop sponsored by the Asia Center and cosponsored by the Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University