Over the past few decades, the expansion of global (re)production networks, the partial liberalization of cross-border mobility, the rise of new sending states promoting migrant exports and the burgeoning of a migration industry with recruitment networks at the lead, presage fundamental changes in world society. A global summit focused on the political economy of migration answers the call to open the “black box” of labor migration to better understand the mechanisms making mobility possible in addition to identifying the factors driving migration and what happens at migrants’ destination.

This RC02 conference highlights contributions in three cross-cutting themes (for details, see the Call for papers) that explore the relationship between states, markets, and migrants: Governance and the Making of Transnational Labor Mobilities and Labor Regimes; Transformation and Transnationalization of Social Reproductive Labor (e.g., care work, health, education); and Regulation and Resistance. These subthemes offer fruitful avenues of inquiry drawing on a spectrum of alternative perspectives.

Submission of abstracts: September 1, 2023
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2023
Submission of full papers: June 1, 2024 (February 1, 2024 for consideration for travel grants)

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