{"id":992,"date":"2015-09-24T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=992"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:01","slug":"re-theorising-skilled-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2015\/re-theorising-skilled-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Theorising Skilled Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Re-Theorising Skilled Migration\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"mobility-politics-re-theorising-skilled-migration\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>Mobility &amp; Politics<\/strong>: <strong>Re-Theorising Skilled Migration<\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 22, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Parvati Raghuram<\/strong>, Reader in Human Geography at the Open University, UK, presented a talk&nbsp;entitled <strong>\u201cRe-Theorising Skilled Migration\u201d<\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Skills offer one of the most important passports to mobility in the contemporary world. As a result, skilled migration has become the object of considerable empirical and policy analysis. However, theorisations of skilled migration have lagged behind policy analyses. In this presentation this lacuna is addressed by exploring three ways in which skilled migration may be theorised spatially: through comparativism, as a set of constitutive relations and as topological twists. This talk suggests that skills should be seen not as pre-given but as produced at particular spatio-temporal conjunctures. The presentation ends by asking how do these spatial analytics alter the politics of &#8216;migration talk&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Parvati Raghuram<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>is a Reader in Human Geography at the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University, UK. She has co-authored &#8220;Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction&#8221; (Palgrave), &#8220;The Practice of Cultural Studies&#8221; (Sage), &#8220;Gender and International Migration in Europe&#8221; (Routledge) and co-edited &#8220;South Asian Women in the Diaspora&#8221; (Berg) and &#8220;Tracing Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations&#8221; (Sage). She co-edits with Martin Geiger and William Walters the&nbsp;&#8220;Mobility &amp; Politics&#8221; series for&nbsp;Palgrave Macmillan. Her recent interest is in the question: does studying migration always need to mean studying migrants?<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop was chaired by <strong>Christina Gabriel, Carleton University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobility &amp; Politics: Re-Theorising Skilled Migration. Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Dr. Parvati Raghuram, Reader in Human Geography at the Open University, UK, presented a talk&nbsp;entitled \u201cRe-Theorising Skilled Migration\u201d.&nbsp; &#8220;Skills offer one of the most important passports to mobility in the contemporary world. 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