1674 
Paper Session 
Saturday, 2:45-4:30pm 

Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center 

Room: Mineral B 

Analyses of racialization and racism are often obscured in migration studies. Instead, migration studies have largely framed migration and border controls as governing the movement of non-citizens and producing citizen-subjects with endowed rights. The racial grammar that frames security threats and the logics of carcerality are rarely highlighted, leaving the study of migration, freedom, and of mobility as ahistorical abstractions, void of their connections to racial logics of differentiation that frame the politics of inclusion/exclusion and movement in, out and across space. This session provides a forum to discuss the intrinsic connection between histories of slavery, settler-colonialism, and contemporary racial projects of nation-building, and studies of migration, mobility, carcerality, and the border.