Event overview
For their first event of 2017 the PhD Migration Reading Group will be hosting Professor Isin, who will share and discuss some of his latest research on the Brexit vote for an upcoming chapter he is writing.
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union may well become one of the defining moments of our times not only in the UK but also in Europe. But how defining it is and how to define it are more difficult than one imagines. Thinking historically about this moment forced me to revisit the periods in which the British Empire reorganised itself as a commonwealth, roughly between 1916 to 1948, which was itself a reconfiguration of an empire-state from the ruins of 1783 and 1914. This was followed by the rapid decline of the idea between 1948 and 1973. During the same period, the UK applied to and was rejected twice by the European Economic Community. After its entry into the EEA, the UK postwar migration policies increasingly clashed with the freedom of movement policies of the EEA and subsequently the EU. Throughout these periods British citizenship and nationality have been reconfigured in paradoxical but indelible ways that embody a specific logic of biopolitics governing a population and its movements. I will trace a genealogy of this logic by briefly focusing on key moments as a zigzag: 1783, 1948, 1962, 1926, 1981, 1973, 1992, and 2005.
Engin is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London and University of London Institute in Paris. Engin’s research and teaching focus on doing international politics: the ways in which people constitute themselves as actors or subjects of international politics through acts, movements, and struggles. You can find more about his work at http://enginfisin.net.
The PhD Migration Reading Group is a student-led space for the articulation of different approaches, concepts and ideas from PhD students working on migration across different departments at Goldsmiths.
This event is free and open to all, with no ticket or pre-registration required. There will also be free free wine afterwards.
Peter Rees
Dates & times
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| 27 Feb 2017 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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