Liberal Violence: Governing Irregular Migration Along European Borders
Tue, 28 May
|Building 19, Room 710 Waseda Campus
A Talk with Dr. Arshad Isakjee (University of Liverpool) Drawing upon two case studies in Northern France and the Western Balkans (Bosnia, Croatia), this talk examines violent border enforcement along the Schengen and EU borders.
Date and Venue
28 May 2019, 14:45 – 16:45 GMT+9
Building 19, Room 710 Waseda Campus, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Date: 28 May 2019 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:45 –16:15 (4th period)
Venue: Building 19, Room 710 Waseda Campus
Free attendance, no registration required
Speaker:
Arshad Isakjeeis a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. He researches migration, security and identity in the UK and Europe. In particular, his work revolves around informal migration into Europe and Muslim minorities in the UK. His doctoral research was conducted at the University of Birmingham and explored the securitisation of Muslim communities through state counter-terrorism policy. Since 2015 he has been exploring irregular migration into the European Union and its often violent governance, with fieldwork conducted in Northern France and the Western Balkans. He is currently working on an activist-scholar project funded y the Antipode Foundation exploring border violence and resistance to it in Bosnia.