This is the video of the first session of our June 2024 conference, Criminalisation, Politicisation and the Hostile Environment, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on the evening of 27 June. The session was chaired by Umut Erel, opened by Nira Yuval-Davis, and featured Ben Gidley, Eleonore Kofman, and Don Flynn, talking about the story of SSAHE and our agenda for the coming period.

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Umut Erel is a Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her research focuses on migrant families, paid and unpaid work, and citizenship.

Don Flynn is a migrant rights activist, former director of Migrants’ Rights Network, and editor of Chartist magazine.

Ben Gidley is a Reader in Sociology and Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck University of London, and previously a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford University.

Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Law at Middlesex University. She is co-Director of the UKRI’s Migration and Displacement stream, co-Investigator of the project Gendered Dynamics of Labour Migrations, and an IMISCOE board member.

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.