The 21st Annual Conference of IMISCOE, held in Lisbon, addressed the uneven historical processes of nation-state formation and their entanglement with colonial and imperial inequalities. The event highlighted how categories such as “citizen” and “foreigner,” “migrant” and “non-migrant,” have been socially constructed and institutionalized through bordering practices, laws, and policies. These categorizations shape how migration is taught, theorized, and publicly debated, while obscuring the fact that migration itself is a socially constructed phenomenon.
Within this context, the panel “The Complexities of Care Mobility in Times of Social Transformations” examined how such categorizations intersect with global care mobility. Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck (Goethe University Frankfurt) co-organised the panel and contributed with a presentation entitled “Skills as a New Commodity and Policy Issue in Transnational Senior Care.”
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