Past Event

EURUS would like to announce a public guest
talk organized by the Borders in Globalization Project (BIG) and the Mobility & Politics Transnational Research Collective by Nick Vaughan-Williams from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom). Please see the poste
r for more details and find a summary of the talk below:

What spatial formations and modes of governance are reflected in attempts to manage flows of mobility and immobility in the context of the ‘2015 Mediterranean crisis’? – And how are these experienced by ‘irregular’ populations targeted by apparatuses of border security? – What are some of the key conceptual challenges we need to be engaging with and how to best approach them?

In reflecting on these questions, our invited speaker will draw on some of the arguments of his recent book, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond (OUP, 2015), and the interim findings of fieldwork conducted in Malta as part of his current project entitled ‘Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences’.