Romola Sanyal on “Migration and Diversity in the City”

At this episode, we have Professor Romola Sanyal from the London School of Economics, who will talk about “Migration and diversity in the city”. Professor Sanyal’s research focuses on the relationship between forced migration and urbanisation. In one strand of her research, she looks at how refugees and other forced migrants become ‘city makers’ through building and inhabiting urban spaces. This work had been conducted in India and Lebanon, through the study of Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and Partition refugee colonies in Calcutta. 

Here, she explores how the act of [building itself] was a form of politics and how it challenged efforts by humanitarian organisations and host governments to marginalise and depoliticize refugees. She continues this work by studying how refugees come to [inhabit and make homes] whilst being displaced and living in legally precarious circumstances. A second strand of this work looks at the geopolitics of humanitarian knowledge production, particularly on urban refugees. Without further ado, let’s listen to Professor Sanyal.

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