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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective

@colmigproject.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our project will be at #APSA2026: Our research is part of the panel "Representation, Candidate Appeals, and Group Messaging" (put together by Div. 32, Race, Ethnicity and Politics). Thursday at 4pm:

Representation, Candidate Appeals, and Group Messaging
Thu, September 3, 4:00 to 5:30pm EDT, TBA

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our project members Anita Huizar-Hernandez and @mcslaven.bsky.social presented their research on Friday at the Roatch-Haskell Lectures at Arizona State University, on "The Complex Historical and Political Events of the Southwest Borderlands." Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We are finishing three great days of project meetings at the invariably beautiful campuses of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile. Great views and great opportunities to link together our project fieldwork on 6 continents! Stay tuned

Four people sitting around a table in a wood-panelled room watching a remote presentation on a TV

Three people in the distance walking on a path through a green and forested hillside, toward white buildings and mountains in the far distance

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Thanks to everyone who stopped by (digitally) to our project panel at #IMISCOE2025, and to our discussant Prof Ipek Demir for her excellent questions/comments! Featuring team members @evansmithhist.bsky.social, @mcslaven.bsky.social, Carla Sepulveda and Hamoon Khelghat-Doost.

Screenshot of an online conference featuring several people watching and a powerpoint presentation about "Immigration politics: typology and 'convergence'"

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Find our project at IMISCOE this week, in the online programme -- Thursday 10:50-12:20 (Paris time). Four papers from project partners who are beaming in from all over the world! Hope to see you there.

Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective
Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #203 panel | migpog
Room: Online room 2

While colonialism is a global phenomenon, discussions of how it has influenced contemporary migration governance are usually confined to a handful of cases in Europe. This panel presents four papers emerging from a British Academy-funded interdisciplinary research project, which, taking colonialism’s global scope as a starting point, aims to decentre this analysis – broadening geographically and deepening temporally our understanding of how colonialism has shaped migration policies worldwide. Such a perspective questions the presumption that “settler societies” and ex-metropoles developed different, rather than similar, migration politics from their involvement in colonial empires; the frequent exclusion of Southern “settler” countries from analysis; the tendency to overlook empires based outside of Europe; a relative lack of detailed historical engagement in many social-scientific accounts of colonial influence; and a frequent lack of comparison in these examinations. Drawing insights from a range of social science and humanities fields, this project aims to help forge a global understanding of how the many identities shaped by colonization and empire shape the governance of international mobility in today’s world.

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