CONF : Intervention de Kathryn Cassidy, “ Everyday bordering in the National Health Service” dans le Séminaire CREC — Mardi 15 Octobre 2019, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Paris

Sémi­naires CREC 2018–2019 – Centre de Civi­li­sa­tion en Recherches Britanniques

Responsable(s) : M. FEE David

Infos pratiques

  • Horaire : de 16H00 à 18H00
  • Adresse : Institut du Monde Anglo­phone, 5 Rue de l’École de Méde­cine – 75006 Paris, salle 12
  • Site internet source

Présentation

Recent immi­gra­tion legis­la­tion in the UK has extended the internal reach of the UK’s border. The inten­si­fi­ca­tion of everyday borde­ring has intro­duced immi­gra­tion checks into more and more everyday encoun­ters and required more UK resi­dents than ever before to check the immi­gra­tion status of others (Yuval-Davis et al, 2019). In this talk, I will begin by explo­ring what this shift has meant for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and heal­th­care workers. I will then move on to demons­trate that the advent of everyday borde­ring has also, however, opened up new spaces to resist processes and prac­tices of borde­ring and why heal­th­care has become a key site for oppo­si­tion to everyday borde­ring for a wide range of actors. In parti­cular, I explore how the campai­gning work of migrant support orga­ni­sa­tions and other groups inter­sects with mundane prac­tices of everyday resis­tance by workers within the NHS itself.

Kathryn Cassidy is an Asso­ciate Professor of Human Geography at Northum­bria Univer­sity. She joined Northum­bria in 2013 after three years as a lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, Univer­sity of London. She completed her PhD in the Centre for Russian and East Euro­pean Studies at the Univer­sity of Birmin­gham in 2011, having previously studied at the Univer­sity of Nottin­gham and Univer­sity College, London. Between 2013 and 2016, she worked on the EUBor­ders­capes project, work package nine : ‘Borders, Inter­sec­tio­na­lity and the Everyday’ led by Nira Yuval-Davis and Georgie Wemyss. From October 2019 to August 2021 she will be a Leve­rhulme Research Fellow working on a project entitled ‘Dis/​b/​ordering : disrup­ting everyday welfare borde­ring in the UK’. Her publi­ca­tions include the book Borde­ring (Polity Press, 2019 with Nira Yuval-Davis and Georgie Wemyss), as well as special issues of Poli­tical Geography (2018) and Ethnic and Racial Studies (2017). In 2019 she was awarded the BSA/​SAGE Prize for Inno­va­tion and/​or Excel­lence with Nira Yuval-Davis and Georgie Wemyss for their article ”Everyday Borde­ring, belon­ging and the reorien­ta­tion of British immi­gra­tion legis­la­tion”, publi­shed in Socio­logy in 2018.