Join us for a conversation with Heba Gowayad as she discusses her new project, The Cost of Borders.
Millions of displaced people attempt journeys across borders in pursuit of asylum. Though seeking asylum is a right sanctioned by international law, people on the move are often cast as rule-breakers and criminals. They are in turn forced to make incredible sacrifices — emotionally, physically, and financially — which differ at intersections of inequalities like race, gender, or physical ability.
In her new project, The Cost of Borders, Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College & Graduate Center and author of the award winning book Refuge, uses a multi-method approach drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and quantitative data on human mobility and state expenditures to ask what are the costs of borders? Focusing on the frontiers between Global North and South, Dr Gowayed examines borders as a series of transactions that are always costly and often deadly.
Dr Gowayed will appear in conversation with Kate Cronin-Furman, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Masters’ Programme at University College London, and Stephanie Schwartz, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE, discussing both the project’s preliminary findings and the process of researching issues in displacement.
Meet our speakers and chair:
Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College.
Kate Cronin-Furman, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights MA at UCL.
Chair:
Stephanie Schwartz, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE
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