How do scholars empirically, conceptually and theoretically research colonial continuities, while simultaneously being attentive to discontinuities? The UvA summer school The Coloniality of Migration Politics in Europe invites PhD researchers to critically explore legacies and dis/continuities of coloniality in citizenship- and migration politics in Europe. In a series of workshops, lectures and intensive feedback sessions, participants will critically engage with the legacies of (methodological) whiteness and racism in migration studies, dis/continuities between colonial mobility governance and contemporary migration politics, as well as tackle their own positionalities and roles in knowledge production systems. 

The summer school provides a broad platform for reflection, through a co-creation workshop with The Refugee Academy (VU), a positionality workshop with Dr. Laura Kapinga, Dr. Rik Huizinga and Dr. Reza Shaker  (University of Groningen, Utrecht University & Leiden University), alongside lectures by prof. Rosalba Icaza Garza (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Dr. Joe Turner (University of York).

Convened by Saskia Bonjour (UvA), Silvia Aru (University of Turin), Sonja Evaldsson Mellström (UvA), Eline Westra (UvA). This Summer School is supported by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, as well as by the Strange(r) Families Project.