GL01 Human Mobility

The track welcomes individual paper and panel proposals related to human mobility from any of the subfields of political science. Proposals may come from any methodological tradition and cover any level of analysis (sub-national, national, regional, or supranational). In keeping with the IPSA World Congress’ theme, we invite presentations on the effects of bordering processes on human mobility and the ways in which these can generate polarized societies. We invite proposals at the intersection of human mobility and human insecurity—including various forms of exploitation, violence, and human rights violations, on the growing political efforts to criminalize human mobility and how this approach interacts with the emergence of autocratic parties and leaders. We welcome proposals on the way in which mismanagement of irregular migration and the lack of effective migration governance generate political crises in well-established democracies, feeding societal polarization and political opportunism, and how uneven distribution of wealth, challenges to security, lack of adequate health guarantees can increase individual dissatisfaction, favor and aggregate into radical political movements around human mobility. Papers on the failure to integrate migrants and their consequences among those who manage to reach their destination are also welcome. Works can address contexts of polycrises and the ways in which political actors struggle to manage simultaneous crises, including irregular and human mobility. Finally, we encourage presentations on research addressing the management of human mobility in South to North flows and South to South flows and the ways in which phenomena such as climate change, ungovernability, violence and crime, deep poverty, human rights violations, and lack of freedoms create intraregional human mobility.