Event overview
Panel Discussion and Joint Book Launch
Conventional wisdom about migration often focusses on the challenges that the movement of people across borders presents to nation-states. In recent years, this has been caught up in questions of sovereignty and has driven significant political transformation across Western Europe. In Britain, this focus on people entering countries all too often neglects those who leave, overlooking the significant British emigrant population who at 5.6 million worldwide are equivalent to one in ten Britons. Considered as privileged, labelled ‘expatriates’ rather than migrants, and depicted in stereotypical and outdated ways, there is very limited knowledge and understanding of this British population abroad.
The overlooking of British migrants and their lives in contemporary migration research is just one example of the uncomfortable pairing of privilege and migration. This event brings together Professor Pauline Leonard and Dr Katie Walsh, the editors of the new volume British Migration: privilege, diversity and vulnerability (2018, Routledge), Dr Michaela Benson and Professor Karen O’Reilly, authors of Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama, to talk through the need for a nuanced consideration of the relationship between privilege and migration. In particular, talking through the contributions made by these two works, they discuss the location of migration trends within longer global histories, and in particular colonialism; the diversity within privileged migration flows; the governance and economic structures that promote such migrations, and the co-existence of privilege with vulnerability.
The event includes a wine reception and is open to all!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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