In Conversation with Anna Finiguerra

Show notes

What are the politics of human mobility through the lenses of visibility and invisibility? What does it mean for movement to be seen - or unseen - and who controls that? Joining us in this episode is Anna Finiguerra (King’s College London), whose Phd thesis “Ecologies of Visibility: Assembling the Politics of Mobility through Multiple Practices of Knowledge Production” won this year’s EISA best dissertation award. Anna Finiguerra’s research rethinks traditional frameworks of (in)visibility in studies on migration by examining events like the construction of the Gateway to Europe and migrant self-narration at the same site. Her work challenges traditional perspectives on how knowledge about migration is generated and how it is rendered visible and opaque in fundamentally different ways than if we were only to consider migration in terms of borders, and checkpoints. Anna Finiguerra, now a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESRC-funded project "Practice, Assemblage, and Emergence in the Governance of Freight Shipping" at King’s College London, brings a unique perspective informed by her work on mobility, materiality, and knowledge.

**Dr Anna Finiguerra **

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