Ruben Andersson

Ruben Andersson is professor of social anthropology at Oxford University’s Department of International Development, working on security, migration, borders and related topics. He recently co-authored Wreckonomics: Why it’s time to end the war on everything, with David Keen, which explores why various wars and security interventions have proven so profitable despite their frequently disastrous failures.

Starmer’s counter-terror plan for migration woefully misses the mark

There's no smuggling 'kingpin' to take down. Instead, Labour’s security rhetoric risks putting more people in danger

By Ruben Andersson

/ 8 Nov 2024

Starmer’s counter-terror plan for migration woefully misses the mark

Mare Nostrum and migrant deaths: the humanitarian paradox at Europe’s frontiers

An industry has grown up around migratory routes in which care and control functions alternately clash and merge with each other. Understanding the humanitarian-policing nexus at play is key to moving beyond the current impasse.

By Ruben Andersson

/ 30 Oct 2014

Mare Nostrum and migrant deaths: the humanitarian paradox at Europe’s frontiers

By Ruben Andersson

/ 29 Oct 2014

Multiculturalism at work

Charing Cross Road, a heaving mass of punters, tourists and ambling drunkards flows past Samuel's workplace at its usual frenetic, clogged pace, until one of its number dislodges

By Ruben Andersson

/ 15 Jun 2006