Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration
How do lived experiences of precarious migration generate claims to rights, belonging and accountability? To what extent does global citizenship in the making provide an analytical framework that helps to make sense of such claims? And in what ways do claims in situations of precarity trouble conventional ideas of citizenship and ‘the international’?
This talk will introduce Professor Squire’s new book, which draws on research conducted over two decades with people experiencing the violence of contemporary governing practices first-hand. Based on case studies from across multiple contexts, including the Mediterranean, the Mexico-US border region, sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, the book charts a multiplicity of ways through which claims are enacted in situations of precarity.
Professor Squire highlights the potential and the limits of global citizenship in the making, to conclude that theories of coloniality and abolition provide critical insights for a migrant oriented perspective on the politics of precarious migration.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
She has over twenty years of experience of research with mobile and displaced communities and is author of eight books and over fifty articles/book chapters. Vicki has undertaken research and led research projects across multiple sites and regions, including the UK, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, the Mexico-US border region and sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently Lead Investigator of the Data Literacies in Displacement and Humanitarian Settings project (2024-2027) and has just published a new book, Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship (2025, Edinburgh University Press).
