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The next Meeting on Migration Experiences will take place on May 12, 2025, starting at 2:30 p.m., with the theme “The experiential border: Where (what and who) are borders?”.
Venue
Room B226, Building 4 - Iscte
Speaker
Lisa Senecal
PhD Candidate, ICS, University of Lisbon
Comment
Nina Amelung
Research Fellow, ICS, University of Lisbon
Language
Inglês
Abstract
In this presentation, Lisa Senecal aims to problematize that simplification; she relies on the experiences of a diverse group of border-crossers who migrated to Malta and whom she met there between 2021 and 2023. She will build the case that border-crossers share some surprising commonalities despite the circumstances of their migrations – and that it is those circumstances, more than the act of migrating, that defines “who is a migrant” in the EUropean context.
Lisa will conclude there is always a cost to crossing borders; revealing the differentials of those costs – inequalities that are purposefully crafted. She concludes that borders have transformative and affective consequences which relate with the physicality of borders but materialize the metaphysical impact (often obscured) that borders have. Borders order and structure physical and social life; they influence, control and regulate mobility. They divide physically, institutionally, conceptually and emotionally. Finally, Lisa will conclude that although it is common to refer to “the border” as a singular entity, borders are multiple. And this multiplicity operates according to imperial logics that have historical precedents. Lisa's hope is that the audience will leave this presentation more aware and critical of borders in their everyday life.
Bios:
Lisa Ann Senecal is a PhD Candidate (Migrations, Anthropology) at ICS-ULisboa. Her research centers around the intersection of race, class, and migratory spaces. Her research focuses on antiracism, inequality, noncitizenship, representations, cultural transformation, and mobility justice as these concepts intersect within a regime of borders and/or in border spaces. By centering the Mediterranean/European/North-South continuum, her project aims to map the Maltese border by teasing apart structural aspects of the border from its embodied aspects with an emphasis on noncitizen subjectivities – that is the actual experience of borders.
Nina Amelung is a sociologist and research fellow at the Institute of Social Science (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Political Sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Migration Studies. She explores relations between emergent publics, matters of citizenship and digital and biometric technologies applied in migration and crime control regimes. She is co-chair of the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association (Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia – APS), the independent research network STS-MIGTEC and in the leadership team of the Cost Action DATAMIG.
The Meetings on Migration Experiences are a co-organization between researchers from CIES-Iscte and CRIA, in partnership with the Emigration Observatory, and are aimed at researchers, scholars and other people interested in this area of work.
The main objective is interdisciplinary exchange on studies in the field of international migration. At each meeting, we look at specific research or work, cross-referencing practices and questions in their methodological and/or theoretical aspects, which are underway or have already been completed.
Coordination: Cecília Menduni Luís (CRIA-Iscte), Cláudia Pereira (Observatório Emigração), Jannis Kühne (CRIA-NOVA FCSH), Liliana Azevedo (CIES-Iscte) and Priscilla Santos (CIES-Iscte).
