When: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PMWhere: Online and in person at Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS
This roundtable event discusses the complex choices to be made when researching migration and social exclusion. Whether we photograph vulnerable individuals, like irregular migrants, or we interview them and subsequently write about them in our research, we make ethical decisions. To what extent are they in need of protection (of which they may or may not be aware)? How do we not capture faces or identifiable details and still tell a compelling visual story? How do we listen to their (often tragic) stories and not do more harm? The guests at this roundtable reflect on how they address these questions in their own work related to migration.
Chair: Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax, (B)OrderS Centre Director.
Cristina Juverdeanu is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Cristina’s research focuses on migration and citizenship in the EU and in the post-EU UK contexts. She researches the evolving relationship between the UK and the EU, with a particular emphasis on the end of the free movement and the implementation of the new immigration framework in the UK. She is currently co-PI in a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy that explores the Post-Brexit intersectional vulnerabilities of immigrant women.
Camillia Kong is a Reader in Law and Philosophy at Queen Mary Law School and IHSS Fellow. Camillia has research expertise on medico-legal conceptualisation of mental capacity, the ethics of psychiatry and psychiatric genomics, and the hermeneutics and phenomenology of mental disorder. She has particular interest in intersections between Western and African normative thought and practice in approaches to mental disorder and intellectual disability. Camillia is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project, Reproducing Borders and Bordering Reproduction: Access to Care for Women from Ethnic Minority and Migrant Groups (2024-2027).
Corina Lacatus is a Senior Lecturer in Global Governance in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Corina’s research is at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her decade-long research programme on social exclusion and migration began with the book, The (In)visibility Complex (Stockholm University Press, 2008) in which she addresses questions of identity and artistic representations of the migrant experience in Sweden. She recently completed a research project on the governance of care for irregular migrants, funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
Parvati Nair is Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London. Parvati’s research interests lie on the nexus of Cultural Studies and Migration Studies, with a special focus on visual representations of migration and displacement. With a background in Spanish Cultural Studies, Parvati’s work has over the years taken a comparative and transnational focus, considering questions of human mobility and culture in contexts of globalization and transnational connections. Her book Displacement, Environments and Photo-politics in the Mediterranean: Migrant Sea (Routledge, 2024) focuses on the Mediterranean region from 2015 onwards to explore photography’s engagement with displacement.
The (B)Orders Centre focuses on the study of bordering, ordering and othering processes through law. It constitutes an excellence hub for intellectual collaboration and the evaluation of the role of law in the making and unmaking of borders and their impact on global (im)mobility. It connects scholars within and beyond Queen Mary Law School to harness existing inter- and multi-disciplinary research into law, borders and (im)mobility and shape future policy and research agendas in response to global challenges.