Lori Speaks at Workshop on Precarious Citizenship
Noora Lori, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was a keynote speaker at a workshop on “Precarious Citizenship and the Street-Level Welfare State” held in Helsinki, Finland on May 24-25, 2018.
Lori gave the opening lecture entitled “Precarious Citizenship and Limbo Statuses as a State Strategy.” The first day of the workshop was dedicated to conceptual explorations of precarious citizenship and state boundary-making. The second day offered examples of ethnographic studies of precarious citizenship and the challenges involved in doing research among vulnerable populations.
The workshop was organized by Professors Sirpa Wrede and Camilla Nordberg from the University of Helsinki. It brought together researchers from the Center of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (RG 3, Migration, Care and Ageing) and the project Ordering the ‘Migrant Family’: Power Asymmetry Work and Citizenation in Restructuring Welfare Professional Bureaucracies (MigraFam), both funded by the Academy of Finland.
Noora Lori’s research broadly focuses on the political economy of migration, the development of security institutions and international migration control, and the establishment and growth of national identity systems. She is particularly interested in the study of temporary worker programs and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work examines the shifting population movements accompanying state formation in the Persian Gulf, expanding the study of Middle East politics to include historic and new connections with East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Lori is the Founding Director of the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking.