Joint STS-MIGTEC and Processing Citizenship Workshop 2023

The research network STS-MIGTEC and Processing Citizenship invite scholars at different career stages to a research workshop. We invite contributions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), critical migration, security, surveillance and border studies, and related disciplines.

You can submit your papers either to specific thematic panels (please find details here) or to open panels:
Panel #1. Emerging Models of Digital Identity in Migration Governance, Humanitarian Aid and Development Assistance
Panel #2. Mediatizing claim making, publics, and citizenship. On ambivalent technologies for migrants on the move
Panel #3. Law, Technology and Border Control
Panel #4. Situating long-term implications of registering and identifying practices
Open Panels. Assemble papers addressing the themes above

Schedule
– 15 December 2022 – Deadline to submit paper abstracts
– 10 January 2023 – Notification about acceptance of papers
– 06 March 2023 – Deadline to submit short papers (of approximately 4000 words)
– 21–22 March 2023 – Workshop (hybrid)

Fees & travel grants
There is no workshop fee. Lunch, coffee breaks and dinner need to be paid individually.
A total of 10 travel/accommodation grants of max. 500 Euros each will be offered by the ERC research group Processing Citizenship to scholars who seek financial support to attend the event. If you wish to apply for a grant, please indicate your interest with your submission. The grants aim to support researchers who lack funding otherwise.