By Sue Lukes
The Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network is an international group of scholars who research and write on migration across a huge range of themes and disciplines:
“Given our collective knowledge, we understand our obligation to migrants and to the world at large to speak out against the dehumanization of all those who flee danger, desert intolerable conditions, or simply seek to make better lives for themselves and their loved ones, without regard for the borders and other barriers to their freedom of movement. Thus, we are committed to joining migrants’ struggles to make a more humane world for all and to migration scholarship that develops and communicates the ways in which migrants are part of our collective struggles to build a better world.”
They are pledged to build solidarity, organisation, resistance and social movements for social and economic justice in the face of “attacks on the right to have rights and the right to life.”
On Tuesday 11th November they are organising “teach-ins and teach-outs” across the world to affirm their commitment to migrant rights. Look out for one near you or check the website: https://migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-events.
The London event is open to all, and hopes to facilitate “an open discussion among students, faculty, parents, immigrants, workers, neighbours, community members that responds to the particular anti-migrant narratives in different cities and countries, as relevant.” Please do turn up and join in but please also bring friends, colleagues, neighbours, family, especially those who maybe are worried about migration, or prone to repeating far right talking points, or just not sure what is going on. We would love to see you there!
Sue Lukes was an Islington Labour Councillor from 2018 to 2022 and is a writer and consultant on migration issues.
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