Border Crossings: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

This event will centre on the theme of borders and migration, featuring a screening of documentary film ‘Small Boats: The Border Conundrum’.

The event will centre on the theme of borders and migration, featuring a screening of documentary film ‘Small Boats: The Border Conundrum’, a documentary that investigates the failures of UK and French border policies, exposing the political tensions and humanitarian stakes behind the contentious France-UK border.

Following the screening, the speakers will reflect on the film and their respective research insights. The discussion will bring together Anne Daguerre, who contributed research for the documentary, Lucy Mayblin, whose work critically examines migration and border regimes and Marcy Palillo whose recently published book explores border violence and masculinity. The session will be chaired by Elena Vacchelli, scholar in gender and migration. The speakers’ contributions will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. At the end of the event, join us for a drinks reception in the Heritage Gallery, situated just outside room QA080.

Speakers

Anne Daguerre

Anne Daguerre is Reader in Social Justice at the University of Brighton and Principal Investigator of the research project Small Boats: The Border Conundrum. A specialist in welfare reform, labour market policies, and migration governance, Anne brings scholarly depth and human insight to a polarising issue. She has held research fellowships and visiting appointments in the US and France, and her work has been funded by the British Academy, the ESRC, and the Fulbright Commission.

Lucy Mayblin

Lucy Mayblin is a political sociologist at the University of Sheffield whose research examines borders, human rights, migration policy, and the enduring legacies of colonialism. Her work explores how policymakers’ imaginaries shape contemporary bordering practices and migration governance, particularly in Britain.particularly in Britain. She is the author of Asylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017), which won the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, as well as Impoverishment and Asylum (2019) and Migration Studies and Colonialism (2020). In 2020 she received a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Sociology.

Marcy Palillo

Marcy Palillo is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Greenwich. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and has previously taught at Sciences Po Paris, LSE, and the University of Bradford. Her research examines the intersections of migration, gender, and race in the Mediterranean.She has published widely in leading international journals, including International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Refugee Studies. Recently she published her first monograph, Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean (Routledge), which applies an intersectional perspective to the analysis of refugee governance in Sicily during the so-called Mediterranean migration 'crisis'.