As part of the project Crossing Borders: Migration and the Shaping of Global Political Theory, the research team organized a series of training group meetings, which began in March of 2026, dedicated to the study of migration, borders, justice, and global political theory.
The group was created as a collective space for conceptual formation, bibliographical discussion, and research exchange among students, researchers, and collaborators connected to the project.
Its central aim was to introduce and critically examine key debates in contemporary political theory of migration, with special attention to the moral legitimacy of border control, the exclusion of undesirable migrants, the relationship between migration and historical injustice, and the need to rethink global justice from the perspective of the Global South.
The meetings followed a shared bibliography organized around the project’s main theoretical concerns: migration ethics, open and closed borders, state sovereignty, democratic membership, colonialism, racialization, reparative justice, climate displacement, and the political production of illegality.
Through close reading and collective discussion, the group explored both canonical contributions to the field and critical approaches that challenge the limits of dominant theories of migration.
The training group also served as an intellectual entry point into the broader agenda of Crossing Borders. By connecting normative theory, historical critique, and contemporary political problems, the meetings helped consolidate a common vocabulary for analyzing how border regimes distribute vulnerability, regulate mobility, and shape unequal forms of political belonging.
In this sense, the group was not only a space for academic training, but also part of the project’s wider ambition: to build, from Brazil and Latin America, a critical research agenda in global political theory capable of placing migration, borders, colonial histories, and racialized exclusion at the center of normative reflection.