Episode 12
In this episode of the Mitchell Institute Conversations podcast series, Professor Richard English speaks with Dr Heather Johnson about her research on the politics of migration and border security and particularly, the shifting international refugee regime and the politics of irregularity and irregular migration. They start by talking about her book Borders, Asylum and the Global non-Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Dr Johnson studies how different kinds of geopolitical spaces, particularly at borders, impact and shape the political agency of migrants – and how these impacts are challenged and resisted from the ‘ground level.’ Dr Johnson is also interested in the politics of citizenship, nationalism and security, but with a specific focus on those “outside” of our traditional political categories.
Dr Heather Johnson is a Fellow at the Mitchell Institute and a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's.
Podcast produced by Colm Heatley.
Professor Richard English
Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Professor Richard English is an internationally recognised historian, academic and author having conducted extensive research in Irish politics and history, political violence and terrorism.
Dr Heather Johnson
My work has an interdisciplinary character, and I am very interested in critical security studies, in theorizations and the study of representation, voice, participation, and resistance, and theories and perspectives of postcolonialism. Much of my work is focused on developing conceptions and theories of political agency, irregularity and non-citizenship.