Making and unmaking global citizenship: IRIS talk

VENUE: Strathcona Building, LT2, University of Birmingham

DATE: 26 March, 3-3.30pm

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’?

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Based on her recently published book, this talk charts a multiplicity of ways through which claims are enacted in situations of precarity.

Highlighting the potential and the limits of global citizenship in the making, the talk concludes that theories of coloniality, racial capitalism and abolition provide critical insights for a migrant oriented perspective on the politics of precarious migration.

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 seven 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).