Скачать или смотреть ‘How do colonialism and empire shape migration today?’ MMB Insights and Sounds 2022.

Dr Ranabir Samaddar talks to Dr Sarah Kunz about his recent book ‘The Postcolonial Age of Migration’ (Routledge, 2020). He explains how a postcolonial perspective adds to our understanding of migration and how imperial genealogies contribute to border-making practices today. He discusses why the migrant is characterised as ‘the abnormal’, and in what ways migrants and refugees are made both visible and invisible in the economic and political spheres. He also considers how COVID-19 has impacted on his thinking, leading to his latest book, ‘A Pandemic and the Politics of Life’ (2021). Ranabir can be seen discussing the impact of the pandemic on migrants and wider society in a MoLab Conversation with Biao Xiang: ‘Thinking Through Shocks’ (May 2021).

Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group. He has pioneered peace studies programmes in South Asia and worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the region.

Sarah Kunz is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, a post she previously held at the University of Bristol when she recorded this interview. Her research currently focuses on the Citizenship Industry.

MMB Insights and Sounds is a series of interviews by members of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB) with colleagues around the world on key issues relating to migration and mobilities.

This interview was recorded on 11th January 2022.