Debates about force and freedom are fundamental to migration theory and policy. The refugee/migrant binary that has been the subject of significant critique in research continues to underpin asylum and immigration policy, while considerable resources are devoted to distinguishing between the trafficked (forced) and the smuggled (free choice) migrant. Immigration policy has long sought to categorise and ‘identify’ those who must be rescued and those who must be punished. This seminar series will critically examine these distinctions, but it will also engage with the hidden compulsions of immigration controls (such as worker sponsorship) and the liberally discomforting explicit force of detention and deportation. What does this reveal about ideals of freedom? What does the foregrounding of the forced/free binary obfuscate?
A matter of convention? Drawing lines between slavery and freedom, and between forced and voluntary migration
Julia O’Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham
Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
Alexander Betts, University of Oxford
Domestic servitude under contemporary migration law and nineteenth century Master and Servant Law; some comparative reflections and The Political Economy of Tied Migrant Labour
A debate between Mark Freedland and Martin Ruhs, University of Oxford
Against Rescuing the Victims of Human Trafficking
Jo Phoenix, University of Leicester
Precarious outcomes to the Pursuit of Happiness: Lifestyle migration and liminality
Karen O’Reilly, University of Loughborough
Forced marriage and immigration policies: understanding diversity or punishing difference?
Geetanjali Gangoli, University of Bristol
'We don’t want to be sent back and forth all the time': Chagossian reflections on compulsion and choice in the context of forced displacement, onward migration, and prospective return
Laura Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
Seminar Series Hilary 2013
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2011
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010
Seminar Series Trinity Term 2009
Seminar Series Hilary Term 2007
Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2006
Seminar Series Hilary Term 2006
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