Call for Papers: Panel “Migration, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy”, 2019 ECPR General Conference

https://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=836&EventID=123

Panel chairs: Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) and Fiona Adamson (SOAS University of London)

Panel abstract: This panel focuses on the diplomatic importance of voluntary and forced migration. It addresses questions around the importance of migrant groups as foreign policy actors, as well as the strategies of incorporating migration in states’ foreign policy agendas. The panel discusses the linkages between cross-border mobility and diplomacy, the rationale behind the use of migration as instrument of diplomacy, and the consequences of migratory processes for the practice of foreign policy.

Please send your paper proposals (including a 250-word paper abstract and the name and institutional affiliation of the authors) to Gerasimos Tsourapas (g.tsourapas@bham.ac.uk) and Fiona Adamson (fa33@soas.ac.uk).