Biography
Danai Avgeri is a political and legal geographer focusing on the intersection of borders, mobility, security, racial capitalism and the humanitarian-development nexus. She is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography. Her project ‘Governing European borderlands: Austerity, migrant (im)mobility and the politics of aid in crisis-ridden Greece’ examines the spatial, legal, and temporal dynamics of migration control amid conditions of capitalist crisis. In her research, Danai mobilises ethnographies of state and NGO practices to explore the role of containment infrastructure, classification regimes, and destitution economies in sustaining and obscuring the racialised borders of Europe. She co-leads the Study Group of Borders, Colonialism and Migration hosted by the Centre of the Study of Global Human Movement. Previously, she was an Academy Fellow at Chatham House, providing analysis on the interplay between migration and public health policies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research
The political economy of border and asylum regimes, racialisation, citizenship and the production of difference, militarisation and legal geographies of migration control, temporalities of migration governance, humanitarian borders, migration infrastructure, the refugee humanitarian-development nexus, humanitarian labour, the NGOisation of welfare state and migrants' social reproduction, policing and abolition, the politics of migration knowledge production.
