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Refugee Studies Centre, Elizabeth Colson Lecture to be given by Professor Mark Duffield, Department of Politics, University of Bristol Title: Development and emergency: containing the migratory effects of underdevelopment Venue & Time: Wednesday 16th May, 5:00 pm, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BG It is now commonplace for politicians of all parties to claim that, in an interconnected world, Britain’s way of life is placed at risk by international instability and extremism. Strengthening social cohesion at home is strategically meshed with reducing poverty and reconstructing fragile states abroad. The talk explores how the control of immigration acts as a lynchpin connecting these regimes of internal and external development. Formed at the time of decolonisation, in response to each crisis of circulation, this risk- based international security architecture has been deepening ever since. The traditional national/international dichotomy, for example, has now blurred in political imagination and practice. Within this strategic and expansive architecture – which has the policing of migration at its heart – it is possible to detect the contours of global civil war. Professor Mark Duffield Professor Mark Duffield is a Professor of Development Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. During the later half of the 1980s, he was Oxfam’s Country Representative for Sudan. He has worked and published extensively on issues relating to humanitarian intervention and social reconstruction in complex political emergencies for a number of UN agencies, donor governments and NGOs. Professor Duffield’s country experience includes Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Croatia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. List archives are available at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html