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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING
Birkbeck's Geography Department and the BISR Urban Intersections Working Group will be hosting the 1st Cities Annual Lecture on Thursday, 30 June (6 to 8.30 pm) at 43 Gordon Sq, Room GOR B03
This event is part of ‘Urban Intersections at the Margins’, a three-day programme of events that also includes a workshop, film screening and walking tour.
The Migrant’s Paradox: inhabiting multiple displacements, Dr Suzi Hall
In this lecture, I expand on the migrant’s paradox as the consistent production of inconsistencies in the maintenance of the UK’s racialised migration regime. I locate the paradox in the brutal contradictions of border-preserving politics and border-expanding economics that increasingly constrict the life and space available to the migrant. Rather than focus on the discrete act of crossing a border, I center my argument on the intersections of global migration and urban marginalization, and the unpredictable environment of bordering that migrants inhabit. From the perspective of street livelihoods in the urban peripheries of the UK, I examine the multiple forms of racial displacement that dislocate citizenship status, secure work and affordable space.
This event will be chaired by Dr Mara Nogueira (Birkbeck).
This series commemorates the interdisciplinary MA/MSc Cities programme at Birkbeck by hosting lectures by scholars, policy-makers and practitioners whose work addresses some of the key challenges for contemporary cities. The Cities Annual Lecture is kindly sponsored by a bequest from Mark James, in honour of his friend, former alumni and lecturer at Birkbeck, the urban planner Peter Hall.