PHD THESIS
Provisional PhD Thesis Title: The Making of Immigration and Deportation Policies in the British Welfare State, 1948-1962
PhD Supervisor: Aidan Russell
Expected Completion Date: 2027
My doctoral research examines the making of immigration and deportation policies and the institutionalisation of racism in a state welfare body in Britain between 1948 and 1962. It looks specifically at the National Assistance Board that began racially targeting and repatriating people before the Home Office began considering legislation thereon. I find that at a time when the composition of the empire was changing and British nationality was undefined, welfare became an avenue through which the socio-economic, political and legal concept of who and what came to be national evolved.
PROFILE
I am a PhD researcher in International History and Politics, and currently hold a Teaching Assistant position in the Interdisciplinary programmes department at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Research Interests
- Immigration & Deportation
- Borders and (B)ordering
- Systemic racism
- Marxism
- Welfare
- Housing
- Gender
- Far-right