I am a political anthropologist interested in borders, citizenship and non-citizenship, human rights and new security technologies. I study the politics of borders in Europe, in particular the contestations over security, entitlements to public services and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. My 2020-21 project, the Wellcome Trust-funded Doctors within Borders was an international networking initative to bring together researchers, activists and healthcare professionals interested in the healtcare entitlements of migrants, asylum seekers and other patients who have unsettled legal or social status. Building on the outcomes of the project I am now developing further reserach on healthcare for people on the move. My other recent projects include work on rejecting refugees in Poland and on border surveillance on the Mediterranean Sea. I developed my initial conceptualization of borders in my ethnography Building Fortress Europe. The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. It was based ethnographic fieldwork in Poland and Ukraine to understand the human consequences of the transformation of the border between those two countries into an external border of the European Union. I remain interested in Eastern and Central European politics, particularly in the debates around liberal democracy, illiberalism, border and immigration politics, EU, misinformation and conspiracy theories, especially where they concern immigration. 

Border and migration policy, critical migration studies, human rights, citizenship and non-citizenship in the European Union, securitization and the governance of borders.

Contribution to POLI.100 

PPR.366 Conspiracy Theories in Politics and Society (not offered in 2025/26)

PPR.341 Contemporary Issues in Human Rights (not offered in 2025/26)

PPR.391g The Politics of Global Borders (not offered in 2025-26)  

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