Dr. Julia Morris
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MorrisJC@uncw.edu |
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(910) 962-7113 |
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Teaching Lab 2104 |
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601 S. College Rd. Box # 5629 University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC 28403 |
Dr. Julia Morris holds a doctoral degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She is a political anthropologist and migration studies scholar whose research focuses on forced migration, borders, and the environment. Her work looks at the political economy of migration, including the forms of financial and geopolitical value that revolve around the commodification of human mobility. She has published widely including in Global Networks, The Extractive Industries and Society, Journal of Refugee Studies, Forced Migration Review, and with Routledge publication house on immigration and border control and global knowledge networks. Her book is forthcoming with Cornell University Press on the consequential damages of phosphate and refugee processing in the Republic of Nauru in the Pacific. Previously, she was also a Post-doctoral Fellow at The New School's Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, as well as a research student at Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). |
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Books forthcoming
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles forthcoming/under review
2021 The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry. Journal of Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa135
2020 Coping and Confinement on the Border: The Affective Politics of Music Workshops in British Immigration Detention. Ethnomusicology Forum 29 (1): 107-125.
2020 Extractive Landscapes: The Case of the Jordan Refugee Compact. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 37 (2): 87-96.
2019 Violence and Extraction of a Human Commodity: From Phosphate to Refugees in the Republic of Nauru. The Extractive Industries and Society.
2019 The Politics of Return from Jordan to Syria. Forced Migration Review Special Issue (62).
2018 Refugee Economies: Violence and Extraction of a Human Commodity. Society & Space: Special Issue ‘Destitution Economies.’
2017 Power, Capital and Immigration Detention Rights: Making Networked Markets in Global Detention Governance at UNHCR. Global Networks 17: 400–422.
2014 Baay Fall Sufi Da'iras: Voicing Identity Through Acoustic Communities. African Arts, 47/1.
Book Chapters forthcoming
2019 Making a Market in Refugees in the Republic of Nauru. In Profit, Protest, and the Asylum Industry. Pine A. and McGuirk S., eds. Oakland: PM Press.
2016 In the Market of Morality: International Human Rights Standards and the Immigration Detention Improvement Complex. In Intimate Economies: Critical Perspectives on Immigration Detention. Hiemstra, N. and Conlon, D., eds. London: Routledge.
Reports 2018 The limits and tensions of political representation and experienced recognition among Roma in the UK. With Bridget Anderson, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Pier-Luc Dupont. ETHOS – Towards a European Theory of Justice and Fairness.
2013 The Impact of Privatization on Prison and Immigration Detention, research report for Grassroots Leadership.
Book Reviews 2020 Review of Kleinman, J. Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris, in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 36 (2): 75-76.
2018 Review of Poteet, M. and Nourpanah, S., eds. After the Flight: The Dynamics of Refugee Settlement and Integration, in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 34 (2).
2015 Review of Moran, D., Gill, N. and Conlon, D., eds. Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention, in Population, Space and Place 20 (8): 757-759.
2014 Review of Hall, A. Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control, in Space and Polity 18 (1): 110-112.
Press and Non-Academic Publications 2020 Review of contribution to Asylum for Sale in Antipode: https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Book-review_Frank-Vitale-on-McGuirk-and-Pine.pdf
2020 UNCW Office of University Relations press on virtual reality course: https://uncw.edu/news/2020/10/uncw-international-studies-students-travel-virtually-to-global-locations.html
2018 ‘Zolberg Fellows in Jordan.’ NSSR News Monthly.
2018 Interview concerning research for The New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs, Migration Studio podcast Borderlines.
2017 The Uneven Production of Illegality: A Response to The Daily’s ‘The Sheriff Bind.’ Forced Migration Forum.
2017 Outsourcing the Refugee “Crisis.” Social Justice Journal Online.
2016 The Mythologies of the Nauruan Refugee Nation. CounterPunch.
2013 Reflections on Applied Research into Immigration Detention, Guest Post for the University of Oxford’s Law and Criminology Department blog, Border Criminologies. |
Learn more at https://www.juliacmorris.com/