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SUMMARY:Alfred Dubs Lecture: race\, corporate “sovereigns” and corpora
 te borders - E. Tendayi Achiume (Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at the Un
 iversity of California\, Los Angeles and former UN Special Rapporteur on C
 ontemporary Forms of Racism\, Racial Discrimination\, Xenophobia and Relat
 ed Intolerance)
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DESCRIPTION:Most legal theory treats border governance as a function of na
 tion-state sovereignty\, and as primarily the domain of the state. Yet tra
 nsnational corporations have a long\, colonial history of making and using
  borders and race together as technologies of economic profit. Even in the
  present\, corporate enterprise plays a material role in constituting the 
 meaning and application of national borders\, and corporations profit imme
 nsely from forms of jurisdictional arbitrage made possible by legal catego
 ries\, including racialized and racializing legal categories. The border i
 s\, in some meaningful but not totalizing sense\, for and by the corporati
 on\, and “corporate borders” are racial borders. This lecture will exp
 lore a legal conception of\, what I provisionally term racial corporate bo
 rders. It will also ask what difference it make to engage with corporation
 s as de facto sovereign or super-sovereigns as the baseline from which bor
 der justice is re-imagined. If the neocolonialism of borders\, and the rac
 ial injustices embedded in these borders are significantly a corporate aff
 air\, what sort of reorientation is required in legal scholarship\, advoca
 cy and policymaking on the future of borders and migration governance?\n\n
 The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement runs a lecture series on
  Migration and Refugees named after Lord Dubs\, a renowned and tireless ca
 mpaigner for refugee rights\, famous for the two ‘Dubs Amendments’ to 
 allow unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Europe to be reunite
 d with family members in the UK.
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\,  Old Divinity School\,  St John’s Colleg
 e
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