Resisting the (internal) Border: a Conference for Academics, Activists and Advocates
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
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Resisting the (internal) Border: a Conference for Academics, Activists and Advocates
When Theresa May was Home Secretary, she declared that it was government policy to make the UK a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants. In her new role as PM she has extended her efforts to recruit civil society into the policing of proliferating internal borders, drawing upon and amplifying a racialised, hyper-nationalist discourse in which both Englishness and Britishness are inscribed as Anglophone, Christian and White. These policies are intertwined with the government's attempts to mobilise an ever- widening range of actors to enforce its' PREVENT agenda in which Muslims (regardless of their citizenship status) are constructed as a threat to national security, reinforcing Islamophobia and racism.
The aim of this conference is to bring together academics, activists and advocates to explicate the ways in which borders are being extended spatially and temporally from the geo-political borders of the nation-state to the spaces and times of everyday life and, crucially, to explore how activists are working to resist these processes and articulate an alternative vision of citizenship. Importantly, it will explore concrete examples of how professionals in academia, health, education, housing and other public services, as well as private sector landlords, have been recruited into policing the (internal) border and how this can be resisted.
Confirmed speakers:
- Keynote: Dr Nisha Kapoor, University of York
- Justice for Cleaners
- Henry Lopez, IWGB
- Homes Not Borders
- Antonia Bright from Movement for Justice
- Luke de Noronha
- Asim Qureshi, Research Director, CAGE
- Jennifer Ang, Legal Education Officer, Migrant & Refugee Children's Legal Unit (MiCLU).
- Dr Reza Gholami , Keele University
- Sanaz Raji, Unis Resist Border Controls.
- Zoe Stewart, Docs Not Cops
- Camille Kumar, Women And Girls Network
- Sarah Keenan, Birkbeck, University of London
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Organised by the Capital and Social Justice Working Group, Department of Geography, the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, and the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, University of London, with the support of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
Contact name:
Madisson Brown