Lori Publishes Book Chapter on Borders and Migration
Noora Lori, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a chapter titled “Migration, Time and the Shift Toward Autocracy” in The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (2020, Manchester University Press) edited by Peter Nielsen and Ayelet Shachar.
The edited book describes “the border” as “one of the most urgent issues of our times” and “proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.”
Lori’s chapter is a response to Shachar’s lead essay for the book where she focuses on how the physical border has been shifting in space. Lori expand’s Shachar’s argument to look at how governments are also using time and its miscounting to police national boundaries.
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 author, most recently, of the book Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2019).