Our PhD Student Bilal M. Salaam’s Work Featured in The Migration Conference 2025 Selected Papers

Bilal M. Salaam, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, authored a chapter titled “Liquid Spatiotemporality: From Nomadic to Sedentary to Nomadic” within the peer-reviewed volume “The Migration Conference 2025 Selected Papers,” published by “Transnational Press London.” This edited book brings together research presented at The Migration Conference, held in June 2025 at the University of Greenwich (London), covering a wide range of topics including law and policy, identity and integration, geographies of migration, and well-being.

In his chapter titled “Liquid Spatiotemporality: From Nomadic to Sedentary to Nomadic” (pp. 233–239), Salaam relates Ibn Khaldun’s perspective on the nomadic–sedentary cycle to Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of “liquid modernity,” offering a phenomenological critique of the identification between habit and Bourdieu’s habitus. The study argues that mobility and sedentariness oscillate across time and space, while contemporary “liquidity” restructures authority, routine, and moral experience. These insights provide significant implications for how we interpret migration, identity, and social transformation today.

We congratulate Bilal M. Salaam on this valuable publication and wish him continued success in his research and contributions to the field of migration studies.