How do lived experiences of precarious migration generate claims to rights, belonging and accountability? To what extent does global citizenship in the making provide an analytical framework that helps to make sense of such claims? And in what ways do claims in situations of precarity trouble conventional ideas of citizenship and ‘the international’?
Heather Johnson, Cetta Mainwaring, and Martina Tazzioli will discuss Vicki Squire’s recent book Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship (Edinburgh University Press). The event will be chaired by Suzan Ilcan.
Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship draws on research conducted over two decades with people experiencing the violence of contemporary governing practices first-hand. Based on case studies including the Mediterranean, the Mexico-US border region, sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, it charts a multiplicity of ways through which claims are enacted in situations of precarity. The book highlights the potential and the limits of global citizenship in the making.
Vicki Squire concludes that theories of coloniality, racial capitalism and abolition provide critical insights for a migrant-oriented perspective on the politics of precarious migration.
Author
Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics at the University of Warwick and Co-Convenor of the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network (BREM) Network.
Speakers
- Heather Johnson is Senior Lecturer at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s Belfast University.
- Cetta Mainwaring is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
- Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna.
Chair
Suzan Ilcan is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.
This event is co-organised by the Migration and Borders Working Group and the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network (BREM), University of Warwick.
Registration will close two hours before the event begins.