Thanks to those who came to the first meeting for the Migrancy Reading group last week.

The second meeting of our reading group will take place on Friday 13/12, 11am-1pm, rather than on 4^th December as previously communicated, as that falls during the strike.

Venue:  County Main B082 – MR 1.

Reading for the meeting:

Theme: Biometrics, borders and the autonomy of migration

Scheel, S. 2019. Autonomy of Migration? Appropriating Mobility Within Biometric Border Regimes. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Chapters 1-2-7

We look forward to meeting in a couple of weeks!

The Migrancy Research Group at Lancaster University is very pleased to announce that Professor Sandro Mezzadra, political theorist based at University of Bologna and author (with Brett Neilson) of Border as Method (2013) and The Politics of Operations (2019) will be giving a Public Lecture at The Storey Institute in Lancaster, on 19 February 2020 at 6.30pm.

As part of this event, we are holding a workshop with Professor Mezzadra on theme of Globalization, borders, and new geographies of inequality, open to PhD students and early career researchers, to take place earlier in the day on 19 February 2020.  Please find our CFP for this workshop here.  Please share this CFP with anyone who might be interested.

Our first reading group is coming up: 15 November, 3pm – 4pm, Bowland North B067.

We will be discussing:

Maitland, Carleen F. (2018), Digital lifeline? ICTs for refugees and displaced persons. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction  (The book is available as e-book via OneSearch)

Tazzioli, M. (2019) Refugees’ Debit Cards, Subjectivities, and Data Circuits: Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory. International Political Sociology.

Hope to see all of you there!