Elizabeth is a third year ESRC-funded PhD student in the Department of International Relations.

Elizabeth’s research draws on Historical IR, IPE, and critical migration studies approaches to explore how the state is (re)produced amid the ‘globalising process’ of mass transnational labour migration. Tracing the materialities and imaginaries of contemporary labour migration at ‘home’ and beyond, the project questions how processes of global ‘modernity’ challenge dominant conceptualisations of territorially bounded states and the so-called ‘international state system’. The project takes as its core case study post-Soviet Tajikistan and contemporary migration flows to Russia and the UK.

Elizabeth holds a Master's in Development Studies with Distinction from LSE and a BA (Honors) in Government from Georgetown University. Before starting her PhD, Elizabeth worked as a financial crime researcher specialising in illicit gold flows from East Africa to the international market. She has also worked as a political risk analyst for the natural resource sector. 

Research topic

Selling the Citizen? Mass Labour Migration and Modern Maintenance of a Hierarchical World Order 

Teaching experience

IR205 International Security (LSE)

Research Cluster affiliation

Theory/Area/History Research Cluster