Did you know that before modern visa regimes, travel agencies were the gatekeepers of migration? 🌍✈️

doi.org/10.1080/0007... by Ioannis Limnios #bizhis #migrationindustry

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How would #migrationstudies look like: (1) if #migrants are the 'stakeholders' and the #migrationindustry the research subject? (2) if we shift from analysing (and problematising) “migrant behaviour” to interrogating (and problematising) the vast ecosystem that governs mobility?

PANEL 4: CRITIQUING THE ECONOMICS OF MIGRATION TUESDAY, 13:30AM, LOB102 Chair: Dr. Jessica Eastland-Underwood DEBT-FINANCED MIGRATION: THE EVERYDAY POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR MOBILITY Dr. Seb Rumsby, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Early career @seb-rumsby.bsky.social DISCRIMINATION BY A 1000 POINTS: THE PROBLEM WITH POINTS-BASED IMMIGRATION REGIMES. Dr. Sara van Goozen, University of York, United Kingdom. Mid career @drsvg.bsky.social Dr. John Evemy, University of York, United Kingdom, Mid career STUDY OF RACIAL BIAS: HISTORICAL AND IN-DEPTH DISCOURSE ANALYSES OF BRITISH IMMIGRATION POLICIES SINCE 1945 Ms. Fatima Farakhdust, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, Postgrad HYBRID INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REGIMES: INVESTIGATING FORMAL OUTSOURCING OF FUNCTIONS Dr. Samah Rafiq, King's College London, United Kingdom, Early career,

4th panel: Critiquing the econ. of migration--Tues @ 1:30 w/ @seb-rumsby.bsky.social, @drsvg.bsky.social, Fatima Farakhdust, and Samah Rafiq. Themes: #financialisation, #intersectionality, #culturalanalysis, and #migrationindustry