We are accustomed to imagine that citizens belong to nations but many of the values that are being challenged today cross borders of nations: security, economy, environment, cyberspace and migration cannot be contained within the borders of nations and require international cooperation and collaboration.
But how are we to conceive the borders of the future citizen? What borders (firewalls, fences, perimeters, checkpoints) are being drawn around the future citizen and how does the future citizen can negotiate and challenge these borders?
Speakers include Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of COMPAS and Jo Glanville, Director of English PEN.
Biographies
Bridget Anderson
Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Labour Markets and Welfare clusters. She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She is the author of Us and Them: the Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (OUP, 2013) and Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour. She co-edited Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy with Martin Ruhs (2010), Migration and Care Work: Theory, Policy, Politics with Isabel Shutes (2014), The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation with Matthew Gibney and Emanuela Paoletti (2013).
Jo Glanville
Jo Glanville joined English PEN in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006. She was a BBC current affairs producer for eight years and appears regularly in the media as a commentator on culture and freedom of expression, including the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the London Review of Books.
Engin F. Isin
Engin F. Isin is Professor of politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University. He has authored Cities Without Citizens (Montreal, 1992), Being Political (Minneapolis, 2002) and Citizens Without Frontiers (London, 2012). He has published with Greg Nielsen, Acts of Citizenship (London, 2008), with Michael Saward, Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge, 2013), and with Peter Nyers, Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies (London, 2014). He is also a street photographer and maintains a website.