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SUMMARY:Outsourcing Asylum and Border Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific: The
  Experiences of the Republic of Nauru - Dr Julia C. Morris\, University of
  North Carolina Wilmington
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CONTACT:Dr Danai Avgeri
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, countries in the Global North have moved tow
 ards outsourcing asylum and border enforcement to frontier territories and
  regions in the Global South. Drawing on fieldwork in the Republic of Naur
 u\, the world’s smallest island nation\, Julia Morris discusses the real
 ities of the island’s offshore asylum arrangement with Australia and its
  impact on islanders\, workforces\, and migrant populations. She explores 
 how this extractive industry is peopled by an ever-shifting cast of refuge
 e lawyers\, social workers\, clinicians\, policy makers\, and academics gl
 obally and how the very structures of Nauru's colonial phosphate industry 
 and the legacy of the "phosphateer" era made it easy for a new human extra
 ctive sector to take root on the island. By detailing the making of and so
 cial life of Nauru's asylum system\, Morris shows the institutional fabric
 \, discourses\, and rhetoric that inform the governance of migration aroun
 d the world. As similar practices of offshoring and outsourcing asylum hav
 e become popular globally\, they are enabled by the mobile labor and exper
 tise of transnational refugee industry workers who carry out the necessary
  daily operations. Morris illuminates how refugee rights activism and #Ref
 ugeesWelcome-style movements are caught up in the hardening of border enfo
 rcement operations worldwide\, calling for freedom of movement that goes b
 eyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering.\n\nIn this talk\, Julia Morri
 s will present part of her recent book "Asylum and Extraction in the Repub
 lic of Nauru":https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765841/asyl
 um-and-extraction-in-the-republic-of-nauru/\, just published by Cornell Un
 iversity Press. The pesentation will be followed by commentary from Dr Tug
 ba Basaran (Institute of Criminology\, Director of the Centre for the Stud
 y of Global Human Movement) and Dr Danai Avgeri (Department of Geography) 
 and discussion with the audience.\n\n\nDr Julia Caroline Morris is an Assi
 stant Professor of International Studies at the University of North Caroli
 na Wilmington. She holds a doctoral degree in Social and Cultural Anthropo
 logy from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on forced migrati
 on\, borders\, and the environment\, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork i
 n the Republic of Nauru\, Australia\, Geneva\, and Fiji to research projec
 ts in Guatemala\, Jordan\, and Lebanon. Her work looks at the political ec
 onomy of migration\, including the forms of financial and geopolitical val
 ue that revolve around the commodification of human mobility. She has publ
 ished widely including in Political Geography\, Journal of Refugee Studies
 \, Forced Migration Review\, Global Networks\, The Extractive Industries a
 nd Society\, and with Routledge publication house on immigration and borde
 r control and global knowledge networks.\n\n\n
LOCATION: Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
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