This is the video of the fourth and final panel of our June 2024 conference, Contesting the Hostile Environment, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on the afternoon 28 June 2024. Speakers: Pragna Patel, Ann Phoenix, Nando Sigona. Chair: Molly Andrews.

https://birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=82ed4673-af77-4d6e-a6f0-b19d00dc444d

Pragna Patel is the former director and founding member of Southall Black Sisters’ and Women Against Fundamentalisms. She is also a member of Feminist Dissent and has written extensively on race, gender and religion.

Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at University College London’s Institute of Education and Social Research Institute. Her recent research and publications have been topics including: boys and masculinities, young people and consumption, serial migration, visibly ethnically mixed households, and language brokering in transnational families.

Nando Sigona is Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham, and Director of IRiS. He research, commentary and writing focuses on irregular migration; statelessness; youth and family migration; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum in Europe and the Mediterranean region; intra-EU mobility and the making of EU citizenship.