IMI Winter Academy 2026

Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance, and Resistance

Calls to “secure borders” and “dismantle smuggling networks” operate as discourses that normalize a securitized logic under the rubric of “safe, orderly, and regular migration.” The goal of the IMI Winter Academy (organized by IMI and supported by the University of Amsterdam’s Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area) is to challenge the logics of migration criminalization and control, and to reimagine mobility and the futures of migration.

Recognizing borders as sites of both resistance and possibility, we invite scholars, practitioners, and community organizers working on critical approaches to mobility to join us in the US–Mexico border city of Tijuana, January 26–30, 2026.