Migration and Border Studies Conference 2026

8th – 9th June 2026

Law Foyer & Room 2.10, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Please see the Migration and Border Studies Conference 2026 Programme for information about our panels and speakers.

Our focus this year is on the urgent need to challenge anti-migrant rhetoric, action and disinformation. The systems shaping migration, border control, and related scholarship and practice are fracturing, as seen in widespread deportations, border violence, desensitisation, and brutality in the UK and beyond. In response, we propose a critical engagement with the concept of place to foster alternative forms of knowledge and to support a politics of resistance and solidarity grounded in compassion, empathy and hope. In so doing we seek to delineate foundational principles for a future beyond hostile border and immigration schemes. 

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and people with lived experiences of displacement, illegalisation and criminalisation, we remain committed to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and co-production of knowledge to redress epistemological imbalances in migration and border studies.  

The call for contributions was open until 12 January 2026 and is now closed.

For information about travelling to the conference:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/