Politics at Play in the UK Immigration and Asylum Tribunal?

Event date
10 February 2017
Event time
13:00 - 14:00
Oxford week
Venue
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 2
Speaker(s)

Dr John Campbell will give a talk about his new book 'Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System'.

About the speaker: Dr Campbell is a social anthropologist at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He has undertaken fieldwork in Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the UK; he has also undertaken development consultancy work in Ethiopia, Kenya and Botswana. During 2007-2009 he was engaged in research on the United Kingdom's asylum system, which has resulted in numerous papers and two recent books: Nationalism, Law and Statelessness. Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa (Routledge, 2014) and Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the UK's Asylum System (Routledge, 2017).

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