The IMISCOE conference in Oslo was an event from June 29 – July 1, 2022, during which the CERM researchers Kristín Loftsdóttir and Ignacio Fradejas-García presented their ongoing investigation about (in)mobilities in the Canary Islands and beyond.

Their online presentation, “Drifting within Islands: Precarious and Forced (Im)Mobilities in the Atlantic Migration Route to the EU”, was part of the panel “Drifting mobilities: the Experience and governance of (im)mobile socialities”, co-organized by Sverre Molland and Jamie Coates.

The panel seeks to use “drifting as a heuristic device to critically interrogate how the temporal dimensions of border crossings – sea, land and air – present fresh opportunities to retheorise how we account for border crossings.”. Kristín and Ignacio’s presentation showed how “EU’s anti-immigration policies render racialized mobile peoples literally and figuratively ‘adrift’”.