This lecture challenges the persistence of coloniality in policy making on intra-Africa migration.
Drawing on the now extensive critique of the hegemony of coloniality/Euro-American modernity in the production of international migration/refugee regimes and policies, the Lecture discusses how global policy making contributes to the dehumanisation, protracted displacement, enslavement, and deaths of Africans who move, and asks why should African mobility be a problem at home and abroad and what are the alternatives for decolonial/rehumanising futures.
Meet our speaker and chair
Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Her research sits at the intersection of forced migration, identity politics and citizenship; feminist geo-politics; geographies of racialisation and coloniality; and political ecology. In recognition of her activism, she received in 2014 the James Blaut Award from the Socialist and Critical Geography Speciality Group of the Association of American Geographers.
Coretta Phillips is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy, LSE. Author of the award-winning book The Multicultural Prison, she researches race, ethnicity, crime, criminal justice and social policy. Her current multi-disciplinary project provides the first systematic, comprehensive and historically grounded account of the crime and criminal justice experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in England since the 1960s.
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