Decolonizing Globalization: Reading Migration through Environmental Justice

This project brought scholars from the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) and the Tilburg School of Law together to develop interdisciplinary environmental justice methodologies for understanding migration, place, and indigeneity in Europe. In the globalized world, national borders are increasingly exclusionary spaces that unevenly distribute the benefits and harms of extraction economies among humans, nonhumans, and environments. As migration to Europe increases through ongoing histories of uneven development and the intensifying climate crisis, cultural production from diaspora and Indigenous communities reveals relationships with local environments and nonhuman communities that challenge constructions of territorial borders and national identity. Through a research colloquium for faculty, five exploratory sessions with students, two public guest lectures from Professor Ricardo Dominguez and Professor Lourdes Vera, and publications on Diggit Magazine, we aim to expand environmental justice methodologies into our research on migration in legal and cultural studies to work toward social and environmental justice.

See Diggit Magazine's Environmental Justice file, available after January 2024