Event overview
This talk on migration discusses the mutual entanglements between freedom of movement and social reproduction, mobilising a gendered-based perspective.
This talk is part of the "Migration, Technologies & Postcolonial Genealogies" seminar series. Organised in the frame of the Migration Research Network and of the "Traces of Mobility, Violence and Solidarity" Volkswagen-Foundation funded project.
Speaker: Prof. Enrica Rigo (University of Rome 3)
Audience: the event is open to everyone (public, staff and students)
The presentation interrogates from the standpoint of Critical Legal Studies the entanglements between freedom of movement and social reproduction. The central argument that it is necessary today to interpret ‘the Stranger’ as a female stranger is structured around two complementary arguments. First, there is the need to unmask the false neutrality of migration control and bring to light the violence of borders even when this is hidden behind the function of protecting ‘vulnerabilities’. Second, focusing on the role that mobility plays as an essential element in social reproduction, borders are seen as a multiplier of coercive social reproduction regimes that facilitate disenfranchisement and exploitation. Both arguments contribute to shed light on the limits of the legal notion of exploitation that is incapable of tackling the intersection between patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism in contemporary global modes of production.
Enrica Rigo is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tre where she holds the chair in Philosophy of Law and coordinates a legal clinic program on migration and asylum. Over the last two decades, Enrica has been involved as an activist in the Italian and European movement in support of migrants’ rights and in the feminist movement.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Nov 2022 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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