Please join us for this conversation featuring Shahram Khosravi, Maurice Stierl, and Martina Tazzioli, three engaged scholars who grapple with urgent issues of migration and border regimes. Together, our guest speakers speak to the ever-expanding violence of border policing, far beyond national edges, and to the ways that migrants contend with these efforts to control not only their movements, but the conditions of their very existence. While located within and focusing on the European context, their analyses speak to predicaments over colonial displacements, forced mobility and immobility, and the racialized containment of borders far beyond the continent. Register now
About the Speakers
Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran and the Middle East, migration, forced displacement, and border studies. Khosravi is the author of several books including The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders. He has been an active writer in international press and has also written fiction.
Dr. Maurice Stierl is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. Before, he was an Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on migration struggles in contemporary Europe and (northern) Africa and is broadly situated in the fields of International Political Sociology, Political Geography, and Migration, Citizenship & Border Studies. His book ‘Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe’ was published by Routledge in 2019. His other work has appeared in the journals EPC: Politics and Space, Antipode, International Political Sociology, Globalizations, Citizenship Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly, Movements, Global Society, American Behavioral Scientist, and elsewhere.
Martina Tazzioli is Lecturer in Politics & Technology at Goldsmiths. She is the author of The Making of Migration: The biopolitics of mobility at Europe’s borders (Sage, 2020), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) and co-author with Glenda Garelli of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016). She is co-editor of Foucault and the History of our Present (2015) and Foucault and the Making of Subjects (2016). She is co on the editorial board of journal Radical Philosophy. Her new book project is titled Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of rescue and struggle.
