This is the video of the second of our June 2024 conference, Criminalisation, Politicisation and the Hostile Environment, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on the morning of 28 June 2024. Speakers: Nira Yuval-Davis, Angelo Martins Jr, Zoe Bantleman. Chair: Rachel Rosen.

https://birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ba8dae54-1f89-4a94-9b89-b19d008fedad

Zoe Bantleman is Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA), a barrister, and an editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law.

Angelo Martins is Professor in Sociology at the University of Birmingham and affiliated to the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRiS). He undertakes ethnographic research in the areas of difference, intersectionality, social inequalities and decolonial sociological approaches to contribute to debates on migration, as well as on ‘Modern Slavery’.

Rachel Rosen is Professor of Sociology at UCL Institute of Education and Social Research Institute. Her research focuses on marginalised children and families, especially those with precarious immigration status; the intersection of neoliberal welfare and border regimes which shape their lives; and their practices of sustenance, care, social reproduction, and solidarity.

Nira Yuval-Davis is Professor Emeritus, Honorary Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has written widely on intersected gendered nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/and everyday bordering as well as on situated intersectionality and dialogical epistemology.