Collecting, assembling, ordering: Borders, asylum, and the invisible labour of data
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 06/12/2021

Dr Lucrezia Canzutti uses the concept of ‘invisible labour’ to examine the work that asylum seekers perform in order to provide evidence that substantiates their asylum claims. The intersection between asylum and labour has typically been analysed in relation to unfree labour, exploitation, destitution and precarity, on the one hand – and the varying restrictions on asylum seekers’ access to the labour market on the other. However, less attention has been paid to the injunctions to work that are inherent within the process of seeking asylum.

Dr Lucrezia is a Research Associate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of York. Her past research focused on migration to and within the Global South, citizenship studies, and il/liberalism. Currently, Lucrezia is a post-doc on the project Security Flows funded by the ERC and led by Professor Claudia Aradau.