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The (Geo)politicisation of Migration: Two Sides of the Same Coin

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6 hour course by Blanca Garcés Mascareñas, Senior Research Fellow in the area of Migrations at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

  • Schedule: 30 June (8:30-11:30) & 1 July (8:30-11:30)
  • Venue: IBEI

Both Trump's return to the White House and the rise of the extreme right in Europe have put the issue of immigration in the spotlight. Also at the international level, immigration has become a fundamental element of bilateral relations between states. In this regard, immigration is not a consequence of geopolitics, it has become a central part of it. Based on different case studies in the Global North and South, and always from a comparative perspective, we will delve into the dilemmas and contradictions that states face in the field of migration: how to respond at the same time to demands for more and less immigration? Are international law and states’ interests irreconcilable? How do the externalisation of migration control and the instrumentalisation of migration feed each other? By analysing and discussing all these questions, participants will develop critical understanding of how migration works and how states respond shaping in its turn migration.

  • Blanca Garcés

Blanca Garcés Mascareñas
Senior Research Fellow in the area of Migrations at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

PhD cum laude in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Dutch Sociological Association (NSV) prize for the best sociological dissertation defended in the Netherlands in 2009 and 2010. For more than 20 years, she has studied immigration and asylum policies from a comparative perspective. In the last five years, she has focused on policies and political discourses on asylum in Europe, with a special attention to border policies and state reception systems. From 2021 to 2024, she coordinated a H2020 project to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of increasing politicisation and polarisation in Europe. She is member of the European network IMISCOE and of the editorial college of Migration Politics Journal.