About GHI

Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context

Demonstrators protesting on the street against racism - Group of multiracial demonstrators from different asian countries fight for equal rights

What is GHI?

“Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context” is the Global Humanities Institutes (GHI) 2020-2021 supported by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Rapidly increasing international migrations have radically changed the outlook of contemporary 21st-century societies, producing cases of massive displaced and precarious lives, and bring various impacts upon local communities. These emerging phenomena have attracted critical scholarship both in the humanities and social sciences in recent years.

OUR RESEARCH

01 Conditions of Migration and Precarious Lives

Our GHI encourages researchers to study and analyze the reality of the forms of life of the international migrants, refugees, and stateless people in contemporary societies.

02 Logistic, Geo-economics, Zoning Politics, and Local Infrastructure Initiatives

Our GHI encourages research projects on politico-economic logistics and the logic of migration.

03 Theoretical Issues Concerning the Questions of Unequal Citizens

The upsurge of migrant workers, refugees, and human trafficking have changed the composition of the social space and worsen the inequality among the people who live and work in the same social space but do not share equal access to the cities nor exercise political subjectivities where they spent their daily life.

04 Address the Issues of Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens

Our GHI encourages colleagues and students to conduct various forms of knowledge production to explore the issues of migration, logistics, and unequal citizens through academic papers, artistic works, and digital approaches, to bridge universities and societies, and to link scholars with migrant workers, refugee communities, trans-local NGOs/CBOs, artist groups, filmmakers and journalists.

OUR TEAM

The 2019-2022 CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institutes, Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context” is developed by an association of six partner institutes:

International Center for Cultural Studies of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Institute for Culture and Society of Western Sydney University, Australia
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand
Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences of University of Malaya, Malaysia
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academia of Sciences, Poland
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam

Along with more than 20 participants and more than 20 guest speakers, this collaboration brings together scholars, basing in Asia or researching on Asia, from various backgrounds who have worked on multi-disciplinary research projects.