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RACE AND EMPIRE IN EUROPE'S BORDERS

Conference

This all-day event will examine the interactions between border practices and the character of the EU, exploring how the new lines of inclusion/exclusion drawn in Europe’s peripheries and on distant shores inform the political identity of the EU. This event hosts a number of speakers delivering a series of panels, each with its own focus, and the event will end with a film-screening with director Q&A! Find more information on the event programme page.

RACE AND EMPIRE IN EUROPE'S BORDERS

Thursday 23 May 2023 10:30am to 5.30pm   

MAR.1.08, The Marshall Building, LSE 

IN-PERSON PUBLIC EVENT -  (also available via Zoom)

Event is co-hosted by LSE European Institute's Beyond Eurocentrism Programme and ENAR (European Network Against Racism)

 

THE PROGRAMME:

Race in Europe's Migration Law & Policy - Panel

Centering racism and colonialism in Europe’s migration policies - Emmanuel Achiri, European Network Against Racism, Brussels 

From Political to Migration-Based Conditionality in the EU Development Policy: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’? - Janine Silga, Dublin City University 

Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles - Martina Tazzioli, University of Bologna 

Violence in Europe’s Borders - Panel  

Bordering Humanity, Securing Whiteness: Race, Colonialism, and Violence at the European Borders - Tarsis Brito, LSE 

Pushbacks and Border Violence: The Silent Central Pillar of EU Migration Policy - Hope Barker

Liberal governance and racial violence of the European Union’s border regime - Arshad Isakjee, Liverpool University, Thom Davies, Nottingham University, Jelena Obradovic-Wolchnik, Aston University  

Externalising, outsourcing and offshoring: Past and present colonialisms in Europe’s Borders - Panel

Between Imperialism, Migration, and Security Landscape in Libya: Examining EU-Italy-Libya Relations - Magda El Ghamari, Collegium Civitas 

Imperial Europe: The African Dimension of European Union Migration Policy - Eva Polonska, LSE, Patrick Kimunguyi, LSE  

Bordering Britain: race, law and empire - Nadine El-Enany, University of Kent 

The Borders of Paradise - Film Screening and Q&A with Zara Gounden, Film Director & Producer

 

MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT

Here are the links to the main event page, here is the event programme, and registration page 

This event is part of the European Institute's Beyond Eurocentrism Programme. The Beyond Eurocentrism programme aims to explore how the shape and shaping of Europe – its political-economy, its political policy making, or its political culture – needs to be rethought in a time of the exhaustion of Eurocentrism.

23 May 2024 London, United Kingdom