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(B)OrderS Workshop: Transdisciplinary Conversations on Migrant Solidarity: Definitional & Experiential Approximations

When: Monday, June 2, 2025 - Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Where: Room: Vicente Zamora, PRAA 214, Universidad de Nebrija, Princesa Campus, Calle Santa Cruz de Marcenado 27, 28015 Madrid (Spain)

The workshop will gather a group of activists and scholars from law, humanities and the social sciences to engage in an in-depth conversation to critically unpack the relationship between solidarity and migration as mediated by law, seeking to explore the conflicts and tensions inherent in responses to the mobility of people from different perspectives. The objective is to dissect the concept / value / principle of solidarity and its several manifestations, paradoxes, and possibilities when it is deployed in response to the rights and needs of migrant populations or as a call to support or accompany their mobilizations and political struggles, considering the role that law plays in this context, as an enabler or an obstructor. The workshop is by invitation only, but the keynote roundtable discussion of 2 June (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) by Professor Cecilia Bailliet (University of Oslo & UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity), Professor Pablo Ceriani (National University of Lanús & Vice-Chairperson), and Michèle LeVoy (Director of PICUM) is open to the public.

This activity is part of an ongoing project that examines solidarity and migration from a collaborative transdisciplinary lens, a first output of which was published as a symposium of AJIL Unbound. It is jointly convened by Professor Diego Acosta (University of Nebrija & University of Bristol), Professor Alexandra Délano Alonso (The New School, New York), Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona, Queen Mary University of London & Hertie School), and Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple, Beasley Law School) with support from Nebrija-Santander Global Chair in Migration and Human Rights, The New School, Temple, Beasley Law School, ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona, the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and the (B)OrderS Centre.

Programme

Day 1 – 2 June 2025

9 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome by organisers.

9:30 AM – 11 AM Panel 1) Conceptualising (Migrant) Solidarity.

Chair: Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (ICREA / Queen Mary / Hertie School).

11 AM – 11:30 AM  – Coffee break.

11:30 AM – 1 PM Panel 2 Beyond Trans-national Solidarities: Intra- and Cross-regional Perspectives.

Chair: Dr Nieves Fernández Rodríguez (Nebrija University).

1 PM – 2 PM Lunch

2 PM – 3:30 PM Panel 3) Solidarity’s Inclusionary-Exclusionary Bind

Chair: Professor Audrey Macklin (Toronto University) (Chair/commentator)

3:30 PM – 4 PM Coffee break

4 PM – 6 PM Public Keynote Roundtable: The Challenge of Migrant Solidarit(ies)

Chair: Professor Diego Acosta (Universities of Nebrija & Bristol) (Chair / moderator)

Day 2 - 3 June 2025

9 AM – 9:30AM Taking stock of Day 1

9:30 AM – 11 AM Panel 4) (Non)transactional Dimensions of Migrant Solidarity (and Humanitarianism)

Chair:  Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Law School) (Chair / commentator)

11 AM – 11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM – 1 PM Panel 5) (B)orderlands as Sites of Solidarity: Challenges and Responses

Chair: Professor Alexandra Délano Alonso (The New School) (Chair / commentator)

13:00 – 13:30 Conclusions and farewell

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch and end of event

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