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Migration from the Migrant Point of View: The Normative and Methodological Relevance of Migrants\u2019 Agency<\/h1>\n

Mario J. Cunningham M., Hilkje C. H\u00e4nel, Daniel H\u00e4user and Thorben Knobloch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arthur Lewis Building G.020<\/em><\/p>\n

So far, the literature on the ethics and political theory of migration has largely taken a state-centered perspective. Central questions concerned the rights and obligations of states \u2013 particularly of the wealthy democracies in the Global North \u2013 vis-\u00e0-vis prospective immigrants \u2013 especially from the Global South. While this focus is understandable given the power asymmetries that characterize relationships between states and migrants and between the states of the Global North and Global South, it has also led to seeing migrants primarily as burdens to be distributed, or as charges to be taken care of. The acknowledgment of these shortcomings has led to a growing interest in approaches taking a migrant-centered perspective in which migrants are not just strangers in need or victims of injustice, but also autonomous moral and political agents. This panel, accordingly, is interested in submissions that tackle questions concerning the normative considerations pertinent to migrants\u2019 exercise of moral and political agency.<\/p>\n

Emphasizing migrants\u2019 agency is important because it is one source for the moral claims of immigrants. As autonomous rational agents, rather than just as bearers of needs or interests, migrants can claim to be treated as capable of making choices and can demand to be allowed to determine their own lives based on their own judgments of the good. An example for this would be the question of whether and how far refugees should be allowed to choose their country of refuge. Highlighting migrants\u2019 agency, however, also means asking about their moral and political responsibilities. Migrants make choices, which might be right or wrong, justified or unjustified. A prominent example would be questions regarding the conditions under which (prospective) immigrants are obligated to respect, or entitled to resist, potentially unjust immigration restrictions. Another one would be the question whether and under which conditions migrants can be said to act (ir-)responsibly when taking life-threatening routes, for example via the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

Besides this, focusing on agency comes with a focus on contexts. Agency has a relational component since a significant part of it is socially authored through the interpretation of actions by others. It also depends on legal, political, and socio-economic conditions enabling or disabling agency. In this regard, questions concerning the normative relevance of these conditions in North-South migration vis-\u00e0-vis South-South migration become salient. Furthermore, examples of the relevance of contexts in understanding migrants\u2019 agency include the growing literature on sanctuary policies and political acts of undocumented immigrants and the normative analysis of restrictions on the right to work or to move freely within the host society for certain groups of immigrants, e.g. asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

Taking a migrant-centered perspective also means reflecting upon methodology: migrants must exercise their agency under particular circumstances, which rarely correspond neatly to the broad and largely ideal-theoretical models that inform much of the debate on justice in migration. Moreover, taking migrants seriously as agents might also mean including their voice and testimony in normative theory. We, therefore, also invite contributions tackling relevant methodological questions and outlining their consequences for the case of migration.<\/p>\n

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Session 1: Moral Agency in Migration Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ariana Peruzzi (<\/em>University of Michigan)<\/em>: When We Decide: Voluntariness,
Collective Agency, and Migrant Choice<\/p>\n

Eleonora Milazzo (<\/em>King\u2019s College London)<\/em>: Migrants\u2019 agency and assisted (in)voluntary returns<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 1 (continued): Moral Agency in Migration Ethics <\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel H\u00e4user (<\/em>University Hamburg):<\/em> Rightful Relations with Refugees<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 2 Feminist Agency and Migration Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hilkje C. H\u00e4nel (<\/em>University Potsdam)<\/em>: Refugees as Fragile Epistemic Subjects: A Lesson from Feminist Standpoint Theory<\/p>\n

Ekata Bakshi (<\/em>Jawaharlal Nehru University)<\/em>: In Search of a \u2018Truly-Feminist\u2019 Agency? Rethinking feminist epistemology in the context of Partition-induced forced migration in India<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 2 (continued): Feminist Agency and Migration Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting-An Lin (<\/em>Rutgers University\/Stanford)<\/em>: Rethinking Transnational Marriage Migration Through the Lens of Structural Injustice<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 3: Democratic Agency in Migration Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eva-Maria Sch\u00e4fferle (<\/em>Goethe-University Frankfurt)<\/em>: Justice and Democracy in Migration \u2013 A Demoi<\/em>-cratic Bridge towards Just Migration Governance<\/p>\n

Zsolt Kapelner (<\/em>Central European University)<\/em>: The value of democratic agency for immigrants: a justice-based account<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 3 (continued): \u00a0Democratic Agency in Migration Ethics <\/strong><\/p>\n

Thorben Knobloch (<\/em>Ruhr-University Bochum)<\/em>: Undocumented Immigrants as Democratic Agents in Public Reason Liberalism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 4: Migrants\u2019 Agency in Context<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mario J. Cunningham (<\/em>KU Leuven)<\/em>: Agency Trade-Offs in South-South Migration<\/p>\n

Rudolph Nyamudo (<\/em>University of Pretoria)<\/em>: Poor Migrants\u2019 Ethical Duties to Citizenry and Themselves<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Session 4 (continued): Migrants\u2019 Agency in Context<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andres Salazar Abello (<\/em>UC Louvain)<\/em>: Intertwined Migrant-Citizen Agency: How hybrid networks and joint actions challenge isolationist understandings of migrant agency<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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