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SUMMARY:Colonial Lives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Process
 ing  in the Republic of Nauru - Dr Julia C. Morris\, University of North C
 arolina Wilmington
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CONTACT:Dr Danai Avgeri
DESCRIPTION:%{color:red}This talk is part of the Infrastructural Geographi
 es series.%\n\nSummary:\n\nRecent years have witnessed the outsourcing of 
 immigration and border controls to economically struggling states. Infrast
 ructural projects around controlling migration are transforming localities
  in the Global South: from shifting legal and political economic systems t
 o altering socialities between migrant and local populations. Drawing on e
 thnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru\, this talk consid
 ers how past and present infrastructural forms give shape to the ways that
  (in)justices are created through the concept of the ‘colonial afterlive
 s of infrastructure.’ Nauru\, the world’s smallest island state\, was 
 almost entirely economically dependent on the phosphate industry in the tw
 entieth century. After the wealth it derived from phosphate extraction was
  depleted in the 1990s\, the sovereign state resurged on the back of the a
 sylum industry by importing Australia’s maritime asylum seeking populati
 ons. In this talk\, I examine the material life of infrastructure around m
 anaging migration in Nauru’s 21 km2 locality\, including the toxic inter
 relationships between phosphate and asylum processing\, the industries’ 
 built environments\, and the people who live and work in them. I explore h
 ow Nauru’s refugee project has reconfigured colonial infrastructural for
 ms\, practices of dependency\, and socio-legal affiliations as the country
  is refashioned as a company town in line with new forms of human producti
 on.\n\n\nDr Julia Caroline Morris is an Assistant Professor of Internation
 al Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She holds a doc
 toral degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Ox
 ford. Her research focuses on forced migration\, borders\, and the environ
 ment\, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the Republic of Nauru\, Aust
 ralia\, Geneva\, and Fiji to research projects in Guatemala\, Jordan\, and
  Lebanon. Her work looks at the political economy of migration\, including
  the forms of financial and geopolitical value that revolve around the com
 modification of human mobility. She has published widely including in Poli
 tical Geography\, Journal of Refugee Studies\, Forced Migration Review\, G
 lobal Networks\, The Extractive Industries and Society\, and with Routledg
 e publication house on immigration and border control and global knowledge
  networks.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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