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SUMMARY:Beyond the 'Jungle': Exploring the ephemerality of encampment in C
 alais - Maria Hagan  (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20190515T110000Z
DTEND:20190515T120000Z
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CONTACT:Melissa Gatter
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Migration Society is pleased to present the East
 er 2019 Graduate Migration Research Seminar Series. \n\nSeminar II: Beyond
  the 'Jungle': Exploring the ephemerality of encampment in Calais\nSpeaker
 : Maria Hagan\, PhD candidate\, Geography\, University of Cambridge\nDiscu
 ssant: Dr Irit Katz\, Department of Architecture\, University of Cambridge
 \n\nAbstract:\nSince the demolition of the notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ i
 n October 2016\, the French state has hardened its policies against inform
 al encampments. A complex institutional system of official processing cent
 res has been established\, marking a shift towards greater securitisation 
 and the violent policing of those living beyond the system. This is most v
 isible in post-camp Calais\, where several hundred displaced people have c
 ontinued to settle at the border zone in scattered encampments which autho
 rities systematically seek to destroy. Drawing on interview extracts\, fie
 ld notes\, photographs and video extracts collected during six months of e
 thnographic fieldwork in Calais in 2017-2018\, Maria will discuss the impl
 ications of this new form of governance. She will reveal how the displaced
  have altered their survival strategies in response to the hostile reality
 \, laying claim to border spaces by tirelessly rebuilding shelter and weav
 ing protective social relations and practices with one another and the hum
 anitarians who assist them. Significantly\, aid provision has been adapted
  and made mobile in response to ephemeral forms of encampment: humanitaria
 ns perform the criminalised displaced as deserving aid recipients while be
 aring witness to the escalation of violent policing practices. To work thr
 ough this dynamic Maria proposes the concept of the ‘contingent camp’\
 , which understands the camp as a contested process rather than a fixed pl
 ace. It is a spatial manifestation of the encroachment of securitisation o
 n the humanitarian in reaction to the displaced in France.\n\nAbout Maria:
 \nMaria Hagan is a PhD candidate in the Geography department at the Univer
 sity of Cambridge. Her current research explores the spatial and regulator
 y regimes impacting migrant encampment in European border zones through et
 hnography. Maria holds a first class Master’s degree in international de
 velopment studies from the University of Amsterdam\, for which she wrote a
  dissertation on the policing of asylum seekers and their informal settlem
 ents in Calais\, France since the destruction of the notorious ‘Jungle
 ’ in late 2016. For this purpose\, she spent 6 months conducting ethnogr
 aphic research with asylum seekers and grassroots humanitarian organisatio
 ns in Calais through 2017-2018. Maria graduated from Trinity College Dubli
 n with a first class BA degree in English Studies in 2014.\n\n--\nThe GMRS
 S offers PhD\, MPhil\, and Masters students currently engaged in research 
 on migration an opportunity to present their work\, get feedback and meet 
 other graduate colleagues working on similar issues. Presenters are from v
 arious fields\, disciplines\, and universities\, and similarly\, and we we
 lcome attendees from across the University.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building (ARB)\, 7 West Road\, 2nd floor\, Room S2
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