Date/Time:	28 Nov, 13:15-15:00
Lecturer:	Alexander Jung
Room:	403

Slides: Jung_Thematic Issues_281122.pdf

Prior to the lecture, I would like you to think about the political economy of migration and the role of the category of skill. Please think about some examples that help you addressing the following questions:

How can we understand migration governance and borders beyond images of Fortress Europe and closure? In what way does a political economy perspective help us in this regard?
Which role does the category of skill play in the governance of migration? What does it render invisible?

Following a discussion of these questions and the readings, we will discuss my PhD project on European skills development projects at the frontiers of racial capitalism in Tunisia in the second half of the lecture.

Readings:

Jung, Alexander. 2022. ‘Depoliticisation through Employability: Entanglements between European Migration and Development Interventions in Tunisia’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, June, 1–18.

Liu-Farrer, Gracia, Brenda S. Yeoh, and Michiel Baas. 2021. ‘Social Construction of Skill: An Analytical Approach toward the Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (10): 2237–51.

Mezzadra, Sandro. 2016. ‘What’s at Stake in the Mobility of Labour? Borders, Migration, Contemporary Capitalism’. Migration, Mobility, & Displacement 2 (1): 30–43.