Mobility and Social Reproduction: A Critical Legal Perspective on Migration, Asylum and Freedom of Movement.
We are delighted to announce a series of events this semester, which showcase new research and publications in a variety of disciplines relating to democratisation, bordering practices, justice, anticolonial and antiracist pedagogies and feminist organising.
About this event
This talk interrogates from the standpoint of Critical Legal Studies the entanglements between freedom of movement and social reproduction. On the one side, the conceptual separation between production and social reproduction lays at the centre of legal regimes of mobility control, on the other side, gendered transgressions of borders destabilise the very categories upon which law and politics maintain this distinction.
The central argument that it is necessary today to interpret ‘the Stranger’ as a female stranger will be structured around two complementary arguments. First, there is the need to unmask the false neutrality of migration control and bring to light the violence of borders even when this is hidden behind the function of protecting ‘vulnerabilities’. Second, focusing on the role that mobility plays as an essential element in social reproduction, borders are seen as a multiplier of coercive social reproduction regimes that facilitate disenfranchisement and exploitation. Both arguments shed light on the limits of the legal notion of exploitation that is incapable of tackling the intersection between patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism in the contemporary global mode of production.
About the speaker
Enrica Rigo is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tre where she holds the chair in Philosophy of Law and coordinates a legal clinic program on migration and asylum. Her research interests include critical legal theory, theories of citizenship and border studies, and asylum and gender issues. She is the author of numerous publications on citizenship, migration and borders including the books Europa di confine. Trasformazioni della cittadinanza nell’Unione allargata (2007) and La straniera. Migrazioni, asilo, sfruttamento in una prospettiva di genere (2022). Over the last two decades, Enrica has been involved as an activist in the Italian and European movement in support of migrants’ rights and in the feminist movement.
Location
This event will occur in person at 32–38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW (Room: Forum, 5th floor), and we especially encourage Masters and Year Three students to attend.
Contact us
For more information about this event, please contact Catherine Charrett and Francesca Esposito via email at [email protected] and [email protected].
