Workshop: Moving Across Europe as Non-Europeans. Meso-level Analyses of Mobility Regimes in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Organized by:
Giulia Scalettaris (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin) and Lucie Lamy (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, ZZF) in the framework of the ANR-funded project AMORE (Afghan Europeans. The Invention of a Mobility Regime)

This workshop brings together historians, political scientists, and social scientists to explore the history and politics of mobility within Europe through a long-term perspective, focusing on groups that have been categorized or perceived as “non-European”. Spanning the early twentieth century to the present, it examines how changing historical and geopolitical contexts have shaped mobility, belonging, and membership in Europe. By adopting a longue durée perspective, the workshop seeks both to better understand the emergence of contemporary European mobility and membership regimes and to advance the conceptualization of mobility regimes as embedded, co-produced, politically contested, and socially productive. Particular attention is given to the meso-level: the institutions, organizations, infrastructures, and intermediary actors through which mobility is governed, negotiated, and transformed in practice.

Organizer: Project AMORE (Afghan Europeans. The Invention of a Mobility Regime), funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR) at the University of Lille; Centre Marc Bloch (CMB); Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)

Program
6 July

2:45 PM–3:15 PM
Introduction by the organizers, Giulia Scalettaris (Centre Marc Bloch – CMB) and 
Lucie Lamy (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam – ZZF)

3:15 PM–5:15 PM
Session 1 – Mobility and Exclusion in the First Half of the 20th Century: Drawing the Boundaries of European Societies at City Scale

Adèle Sutre (Institut Convergences Migrations, CNRS) – Mobility Regimes of Romani Family Groups Around the World (1880–1960): Between Movement and Settlement

Julia Harnoncourt (University of Graz) – Performing Europe: Non-European Artists, Moral Implications and Mobility Regimes in Interwar Luxembourg

Discussant: Christina Reimann (Humboldt University Berlin / CMB)

7 July

8:30 AM–10:30 AM
Session 2  – Cold War Europe and the 'Third World': Non-Europeans at Western Universities

Henry Dee (Northumbria University)  – The political economy of diverging intra- and extra-European student mobility, 1960s-1990s

Lucie Lamy (ZZF)  – Students, Refugees or Migrants? How African and Asian students' cross-bloc mobility challenged the West German Cold War order and migration categories in the 1960s

Discussant: Guillaume Placide-Breitenbucher (Strasbourg University / CMB)

11:00 AM–01:00 PM
Session 3  – The Origins of Fortress Europe: German(ies) as a Laboratory of the Schengen System Beyond the Caesura of 1990

Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF)  – The Globalization of the Narcotics Trade on the Borders of German(ies) and the Rise of Fortress Europe

Lennart Vincent Schmidt (ZZF)  – From Registry to Regime: Digital Infrastructures and the Governance of Non-Europeans in Postwar Europe

Discussant: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (ZZF)

02:30 PM–04:30 PM
Session 4  – Negotiating the Borders of Europe: Non-State Actors and Migrant Networks in Turkey and Italy

Emilio Caja (University of Lisboa)  – The ghetto and the errants. The circular mobilities of legally precarious West African migrants across Europe

Alexander Ephrussi (CMB)  – Acting out the Citizen: Humanitarianism on Unsteady Ground

Discussant: Giulia Scalettaris (CMB)