The Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at UEL  & The Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)  invite you to discussions on questions of bordering, belonging and governance and the launch of Bordering by Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy*: 

Wednesday 22^nd May 

2pm to 9pm

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Please see flyer attached or follow this link for more details and to register for this free event:

*The authors have been awarded the 2019 Sociology SAGE prize for Innovation and/or Excellence for their article “Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Re-orientation of British Immigration Legislation” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038517702599

2.00 Registration

2.15 Welcome and Introduction: Professor Nira Yuval-Davis

2.30 -4.00 Panel One: Greyzones

Chair: Dr Kathryn Cassidy

Meena Patel: Southall Black Sisters

Professor Oren Yiftachel: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Professor Giorgia Dona, UEL

Mohammed Omar: contributor Voices from the ‘Jungle’:  Stories of the Calais Refugee camp

4.10- 5.40 Panel Two: Everyday Bordering

Chair: Dr Georgie Wemyss

Dr Jess Potter:  Docs not Cops, QMUL honorary clinical lecturer

Don Flynn: Former director, now associate of Migrants’ Rights Network

Rita Chadha: Localising Equality

Professor Saskia Sassen: Columbia University

5.40-6.00 Tea and Coffee

6.00-7.00

Professor Avtar Brah (Birkbeck, University of London) will discuss the issues raised by the book with the three co-authors.

7.00-9pm   Refreshments                

 http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504947