When we talk about migration, we tend to think about spatial movement. Not much attention is paid, however, to the implications that policies and regulations have on the actual act of moving and the associated sense of belatedness, immobility and waiting.
This politicised ‘temporal disbelonging’, as Shahram Khosravi has defined it, is what this event wants to explore from various perspectives, including the immobility of asylum seekers in detention centres, the immobility of undocumented people at borders and the immobility of people of Caribbean descent who have seen their rights to stay in their home country put at risk by an ill-managed system.
This event is led by Dr Federica Mazzara, Reader in Cultural Studies at the School of Humanities, University of Westminster.
Event speakers
- Shahram Khosravi, Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University
- Dr Anne Viswanathan, Immigration Lawyer and Director of Bail for Immigration Detainees, Westminster Law School
- Touhid (invented name) a former Bail for Immigration Detainees client
Event location
Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW
