In this panel discussion we will be joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito, Nousha Kabawat, and Luke de Noronha who will each draw on their areas of expertise to discuss the implications of borders in a changing world.
Borders are not just lines on a map marking geographical boundaries but are important for maintaining countries’ nationhood, identity, and security. Due to their importance, borders are also increasingly politicised to define who belongs and who does not, who is legally allowed to enter, and who has the right to own or live in a certain piece of land. Borders are connected to many of the debates of today and challenges of tomorrow, from the refugee crisis to decolonisation and global conflicts. So, how can we better understand how borders are connected to inequalities? Should we re-evaluate how we think about borders altogether? And what will the future of borders look like?
Speaker
Dr Maya Goodfellow
Maya Goodfellow is a Presidential Fellow in the Department of International Politics at City St George's University of London. She is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats and writes regularly for The Guardian. Her current project examines the rise of private security companies in immigration enforcement in the UK. Beyond this, her work focuses on racial capitalism, immigration and bordering, the politics of international development, and animal rights.
Speaker
Dr Tarsis Brito
Tarsis Brito is an Associate Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE. He holds a PhD in International Relations from LSE. Tarsis has served as Co-Editor and Associate Editor at Millennium: Journal of international Studies (vols. 50-51) and as Coordinator at Doing International Political Sociology PhD Series (2022-23). Based on his award-winning doctoral dissertation, his book project is entitled (Un)settling Whiteness: Race, Colonialism, and Violence at the European Borders.
Speaker
Dr Luke de Noronha
Luke de Noronha is Associate Professor in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at UCL. His first book, Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of deportation to Jamaica, was published in 2020. Luke produced a podcast with deported people in Jamaica, Deportation Discs, a riff on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, in which deported people tell their stories via their life's soundtrack.
Speaker
Nousha Kabawat
Nousha Kabawat is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and the Head of the Syria Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), where she has implemented training for Syrian activists in Amman, Beirut, and Istanbul in conflict resolution, negotiation, civil society building, and transitional justice. She is also the founder of Project Amal ou Salam which works with refugee children in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria to empower the future leaders of Syria
Chair
Professor Armine Ishkanian
Armine Ishkanian is the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme and Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation.