Monday, October 19· 1pm– 2pm
Manufacturing a Migrant Crisis: Migrantization and the Continuum of Transit Conditions in New York City
New York City’s 2022–2024 “migration crisis” was not a spontaneous event but a bureaucratically produced form of governance. Institutionalization in the shelter system migrantized thousands of new arrivals, generating dependency, uncertainty, and precarity that reproduced transit-like conditions within the space of
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arrival or destination. This work reconceptualizes crisis as a form of governance rather than an exceptional event, extends migrantization to urban bureaucratic regimes, and shows how destination contexts sustain a continuum of transit conditions.