Workshop: 'Emotional landscapes of migration, violences and resistance in the Americas'
- Date
- Tuesday 2 June 2026 - Wednesday 3 June 2026
- Address
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Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden - Room
- B0.25
Migration is never only a movement across borders. It is an embodied and emotional experience shaped by hope, uncertainty, violence, survival, solidarity, and resistance. Across the Americas, irregularised and marginalised communities navigate increasingly hostile border regimes while also creating spaces of care, collective struggle, and hope. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars to explore the emotional dimensions of migration, resistance, and violence. Through critical dialogue, the event examines how migration is embodied, narrated, and remembered, and how trauma, affect, and solidarity shape resistance and alternative futures.
At a time of intensified securitisation and deepening inequalities, the workshop aims to foster reflection and exchange on migration not only as a socio-political condition, but also as a profoundly human experience.
This event is organised by the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society and the Programa Universitario en Migraciones at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, in collaboration with Border Criminologies’ Border Policing and Emotions Thematic Group.
To participate in the workshop, please register HERE
PROGRAMME
Day 1: June 2, 2026. 13:00-17:00
13:05 - 15:00 Panel Discussion 1: Affective politics of migration
Moderator: Amalia Campos-Delgado | Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Between Empathy and Institutional Norms: Emotional Labour in Migration Bureaucracies in Chile
Carolina Pinto Baleisan | Universidad Viña del Mar, Chile
- What Law Cannot Hear: Emotional Knowledge and Climate Displacement in Honduras
Laura Disley | Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Hope and Hostility: Regularization Aspirations and Growing Discrimination among Latin American Migrants in Spain
Elena Ayala Galí | Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
- Migración a Brasil: Entre la esperanza, la resistencia y la resiliencia. Experiencia de los estudiantes haitianos en la Amazonia Brasileña
Milius Guerrier & Hélio Luiz Fonseca Moreira | Universidade Federal do Pará
15:15 – 14:00: Book presentation: Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago (2025. Routledge)
Author: Pilar Ortiz | Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
Discussant: Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa | Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla
Day 2: June 3, 2026. 10:00-13:00
10:00 - 12:00: Panel Discussion 3: Violences at the margins of migration
Moderator: Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa | Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
- Migrant trajectories at the margins: Informality, socio-environmental crisis, and everyday placemaking in Laguna Verde, Chile
Pilar Ortiz | Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
- Care, Guilt, and Surveillance Across Borders: Emotional Dimensions of Digital Motherhood among Honduran Migrant Women in Spain
Yaatsil Guevara González | Heidelberg University, Germany
- The politics of uncertainty and forced migrant families’ resistances in Mexico
Susanne Willers | FU Berlin, Germany
- Investigar bajo presión: ética, acceso y conocimiento en contextos migratorios violentos
Cristina Gomez Johnson | Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico