The talk examines how conjunctural change produces shifting migration narratives and the emergence of new moralities, forms of common sense, and modes of governance. It argues that transformations in political, economic, and social contexts reshape how migration is interpreted, regulated, and experienced, and it pays special attention to restructured modes of capital accumulation and conditions of labor.
Nina Glick-Schiller was Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute at the University of Manchester. She was formerly Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. Her work takes a comparative and historical approach to migration, transnational processes, and social relations, examining power dynamics within transnational social fields and their intersections with gender, race, class, status, poverty, the second generation, citizenship, and national identity. Of particular significance are also her contributions on methodological nationalist orientations in migration studies and strategies for overcoming them.
