Lecture – Crisis Apartheid: Or how geography is distorted to justify the selective dehumanisation of refugees in EUrope and conceal the global segregation created by its border regime
Lecture – Crisis Apartheid: Or how geography is distorted to justify the selective dehumanisation of refugees in EUrope and conceal the global segregation created by its border regime
We analyse the inconsistent EUropean stance on refugee protection epitomised by the strident contrast between the unprecedented welcome dispensed to Ukrainian refugees and the chamber of horrors that the EU border regime has reserved for unfavourably racialised asylum seekers. The lecture aims at discussing the complexities of Europe's refugee policies.
2 November 2023, 4:00-6:00pm
Online lecture (Zoom)
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Speaker: Rodrigo Bueno Lacy is a political geographer specialised in radical cartography and European identity. He is currently employed at the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland.
Henk van Houtum is Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography at Radboud University and part-time research professor of Border Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.
The lecture is part of the lecture series Border Realities: Crises, Resistances, Silences – Perspectives from the Border and Borderlanders.
The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Border Region Studies (University of Southern Denmark).
