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.
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