Crimmigration Control CFP and Conference Registration (March 2024)

The CINETS-Border Criminologies Crimmigration Control Conference will take place March 1-2, 2024 at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. A call for papers has been issued and registration is open.

Conference theme and registration 

Crimmigration has gone global. This conference, a collaboration between the CINETS Crimmigration Control network and Oxford-based Border Criminologies, aims to question and broaden the study of crimmigration to include more attention to migration-control strategies in the Global South, to the impact of colonialism, and to comparison across less-studied boundaries, both actual and theoretical. We also invite new ideas about the connections of crimmigration to its past and likely future, innovative methods to study crimmigration, as well as critiques of the crimmigration thesis. We anticipate a lively discussion that includes new geographies, comparative insights, new methodologies and sensitivity to the evolving efforts of nations to control borders, interior spaces and populations, along with migrants’ determination to evade those controls.

The conference will encourage cross-global comparisons and invite engagement with new strategies for thinking about the causes and consequences of crimmigration. The goal is to deepen our collective understanding of the colonial links to contemporary migration, the likely futures of immigration and the criminological responses of states and regions, particularly in the global south, to human movement.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ahilan Arulanantham, Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy,
  UCLA Law
• Valsamis Mitsilegas, Dean of the School of Law & Social Justice &
  Professor of European & Global Law, School of Law and Social Justice,
  University of Liverpool
• Sanja Milivojevic, Co-Director Border Criminologies, University of Bristol
• César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil
  Rights and Civil Liberties, Ohio State University
• Roberto Dufraix-Tapia, Professor and Director, Universidad de Tarapacá,
  Chile
• Irene Vega, University of California, Irvine
• Smadar Ben-Natan, Jackson School of International Studies, University of
  Washington
• Jennifer Chacón, Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law, Stanford Law
  School
• Rawan Arar, Law, Societies & Justice, University of Washington

Call for Papers 

Please send an abstract and a tentative title by January 5, 2024 to Marie Provine. You will be notified on or before January 20 whether your proposal has been accepted.

For additional information on registration and travel logistics, see the conference website or contact Juliet Stumpf.

MHC