Race, Gender and Migration in the Global South

Ahlam Chemlali (Co-organizer)
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen (Co-organizer)

Activity: Participating in or Organising an Event › Participation in or Organisation of Workshop, Roundtable, Seminar, Course

Period	29 Jun 2023
Event type	Workshop
Location	New Haven, United StatesShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

migration
race
gender
borders

Documents & Links

This workshop inaugurates a network of early career social scientists researching the racial and gendered dynamics of migration and bordering in the Global South. It emerges in response to the ongoing situation of anti-black and anti-immigrant violence in Tunisia, precipitated by statements President Saied made calling for the deportation of sub-Saharan African migrants and stoking racial violence against them. As scholars of the region point out, racialized discourses regarding sub-Saharan migration are not new to Tunisia nor new to North Africa at large. Neither is this phenomenon confined to Euro-Africa. In the Americas, growing numbers of African migrants are exposed to racialized violence alongside their Caribbean and Central American counterparts. The workshop convenes scholars working in these and other Global South borderzones to form a network that is able to respond to such realities through our scholarship and in public activism.