This presentation was given as part of the seminar - ‘On the Move - Global Migrations, Challenges and Responses’ which took place in Oslo, Norway on October 26 2016. You can watch a recording of plenary sessions from the conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKuY3_ua-Qs The seminar was organized by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), CROP (Comparative Research Programme on Poverty) and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, and generously sponsored by Research Council Norway, with support from the Norwegian UNESCO Committee. Each speaker is responsible for the ideas contained in his/her PowerPoint, which are not necessarily those of the organizing partners or sponsors.

1. Globalisation,
Mobility
and the Drivers of Migration
Anna Triandafyllidou
Oslo, 26 Oct 2016,
ISSC GA Thematic Seminar
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2. Globalisation
National identity International
Nation-state Migration
Intensified
Diversity and Mobility
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What this paper
is about?

3. Glob/tion and
the Nation
• Increased Homogeneity
through IT and global
trade – global village
• Nat.state surrenders to
supranat.institutions
• post industrial world,
insecurity and mobility,
liquid modernity,
unbearable lightness of
being
• Intensified/pluralised
diversity – super
diversity?
• Nat.state remains main
welfare provider
• Freeing from communal
ties, ability to pick and
chose your
identity/shape your
affiliation
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4. Globalisation of migration – quantity & quality
• Less post colonial - New origins and
destinations
• Mixed motivations pervasive
• Growing inequalities and growing
interdependence – growing sense of relative
deprivation – group of reference is fluid: local
community but also international
stereotypes/models (westernisation of culture)
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New dev/nts
in internat.migration

5. Human Agency at the age of
Smart Phones
Information and Human Agency
The Appification of migration and the role of ethnic
networks
– Real time information
– Interactive – evaluating options – offer and demand
of services
– ‘success stories’ from co nationals and smugglers?
– Expectations about destination
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6. The nation as Deus ex macchina
• National identity provides solidity in this
fluid/mobile/transnational world
• The nation state provides work and
welfare (or should provide)
• Tames the forces of globalisation where
regional schemes have failed (e.g. the
EU)
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Calling the
nation back in

7. - End of Left vs Right wing – only ‘progress’,
secularism, democracy, liberalism
- Need for a new Other: Migrant communities,
particularly Muslims, and native minorities,
particularly Roma
- Intra EU mobility changing national contexts
(old hosts meet new European migrants, new
hosts meet ‘post colonial’ migrants)
Favour return to the national frame
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Post-1989
Europe

8.  Integration in global production and trade / Euro
 Increased / Diversified types of migration
 Mixed motivations / flows – refugee crisis
 Increased relative deprivation for the middle classes
both in Europe (countries that have suffered most from
crisis) and elsewhere (for instance N. Africa)
The forces moving people are relational
difficult to disentangle economic from
political drivers – Human security can be a key
concept
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Crisis and
responses