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Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
Seminar 7 in a series on ‘Race, Borders, and Global (Im)mobility’, convened by Dr Hanno Brankamp
Seminar abstract: This talk aims to centre refugee survival in global capitalism between the camp and the city. Drawing on fieldwork data from Paris and Nairobi between 2017-2019, I examine refugee survival on three prongs: shelter, income, and political belonging. With the ever-increasing presence of refugees in major urban centres due to the dismantling of certain camps, trafficking, economically motivated migration and other conflict-related causes, the interconnections between camps and cities like Paris and Nairobi have become more apparent in recent years. In placing refugees in global capitalism, I argue that refugees comprise a disposable population in the global economy along the lines of Kanyal Sanyal and Gargi Bhattacharya’s conception of the ‘edge’. With this in mind, I speak to the material and ideological dimensions of disposability and pay attention to the urban dimensions of racial exclusion amidst logics of capital accumulation.
Details: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/governing-the-displaced-in-global-capitalism-refugee-survival-from-the-camp-to-the-city
Date:
2 March 2022, 17:00
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Speaker:
Dr Ali Bhagat (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Organising department:
Refugee Studies Centre
Part of:
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5YgNu5A6QzmjdMlsfLb18Q
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Tamsin Kelk
