Dr Vicki Squire is Reader in International Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her books include The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum, Post/Humanitarian Border Politics Between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things, and The Contested Politics of Mobility. She currently leads the ESRC project, Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences, and the Leverhulme project, Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence: Migrant Deaths across the Mediterranean Sea. She tweets @vidkowiaksquire.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“I never thought to come in Europe”: unpacking the myths of Europe’s ‘migration crisis’Europe’s failure to listen to people on the move has left it blind to why many people end up going there.
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Published in: Home5,083 boats: a dead reckoningA new installation at the Tate Gallery in London combines scholarship and art to inspire empathy with those crossing...
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Published in: 50.50Humanitarian Corridors: beyond political gestureAround 300 people have entered Italy from Lebanon via safe and legal routes pioneered by faith groups. This pilot...
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Published in: 50.50Fleeing Europe?Europe’s dire politics of deterrence is leaving people in a social and legal limbo while others consider escaping...
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Published in: 50.50City Plaza: a way forward for the European ‘migration crisis’?A novel migration and refugee accommodation project in Athens organised by refugee, student, and solidarity...
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Published in: 50.50Hotspot stories from Europe's borderA response to testimony from an unaccompanied minor whose long journey culminated in a perilous boat journey, the...