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SUMMARY:Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Pr
 ocessing in the Republic of Nauru - Dr Julia C. Morris\, International Stu
 dies Department\, University of North Carolina Wilmington
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DESCRIPTION:Recent years have witnessed the outsourcing of immigration and
  border controls to economically struggling states. Infrastructural projec
 ts around controlling migration are transforming localities in the Global 
 South: from shifting legal and political economic systems to altering soci
 alities between migrant and local populations. Drawing on ethnographic res
 earch conducted in the Republic of Nauru\, this talk considers how past an
 d present infrastructural forms give shape to the ways that (in)justices a
 re created through the concept of the ‘colonial afterlives of infrastruc
 ture.’ Nauru\, the world’s smallest island state\, was almost entirely
  economically dependent on the phosphate industry in the twentieth century
 . After the wealth it derived from phosphate extraction was depleted in th
 e 1990s\, the sovereign state resurged on the back of the asylum industry 
 by importing Australia’s maritime asylum seeking populations. In this ta
 lk\, I examine the material life of infrastructure around managing migrati
 on in Nauru’s 21 km2 locality\, including the toxic interrelationships b
 etween phosphate and asylum processing\, the industries’ built environme
 nts\, and the people who live and work in them. I explore how Nauru’s re
 fugee project has reconfigured colonial infrastructural forms\, practices 
 of dependency\, and socio-legal affiliations as the country is refashioned
  as a company town in line with new forms of human production.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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