Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
A special book launch event organised by the Open University and Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG) to mark the publication of Dr Vicki Squire's The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity and Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic's Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking.
The Publics Research Programme is holding a meeting that will consider the future direction of the programme. Following the completion of a number of the Publics projects (e.g., the ESRC seminar series, the Rethinking the Public book) we think it is time to look at the ways in which the Programme might be shaped.
On 13th July at 2pm the Insecurity, Fear and Risk Working Group will be meeting under the new thematic strand of Borders, mobility and citizenship.
'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is an important addition to critical literature on the politics of refuge in Europe.
‘In this important work, Elspeth Guild provides us with a systematic analysis of the relationship between security and migration. Guild brings together critical security studies with a new approach to migration – ‘critical migration studies’, providing important insights into the changing relationships between citizens and states'