Cities are Back in Town seminar: Migration methodologies

Migration methodologies (webinar)

How do we come to understand the pervasive politics of discriminatory bordering alongside the improvisational practices of crossing? In this talk I explore why it is helpful to think across near and far compositions of bordering, as much as worldly and highly personal claims to space. I turn to the commonplace realm of street livelihoods in the de-industrialised peripheries of UK cities, to highlight multiple forms of racial displacement that dislocate citizenship status, secure work and affordable space. The everyday reveals these acute aspects of a combined political economy of displacement, as much as the modes of making citizenship outside of and adjacent to the state.

Speaker

Suzanne Hall, Professor and Head of Department of, Sociology, LSE

Suzanne Hall is an interdisciplinary urban scholar and has practised as an architect in South Africa. She is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the LSE. Suzi’s focus is on everyday claims to space and how political economies of displacement shape racial borders, migrant livelihoods, and urban multicultures. She is author of The Migrant’s Paradox (University of Minnesota press, 2021) and City Street and Citizen (Routledge, 2012), and co-edited The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City with Ricky Burdett (2018).