Professor Karolina Follis SFHEA
Professor in Politics and SocietyResearch Overview
I am a political anthropologist interested in borders, citizenship and non-citizenship, human rights and new security technologies. I study the politics of borders in Europe, in particular the contestations over security, entitlements to public services and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. My current project, the Wellcome Trust-funded is an international networking initative to bring together researchers, activists and healthcare professionals interested in the healtcare entitlements of migrants, asylum seekers and other patients who have unsettled legal or social status. My other recent projects include work on and on . I developed my initial conceptualization of borders in my ethnography Building Fortress Europe. The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. It was based ethnographic fieldwork in Poland and Ukraine to understand the human consequences of the transformation of the border between those two countries into an external border of the European Union. I remain interested in Eastern and Central European politics, particularly in the debates around liberal democracy, illiberalism, border and immigration politics, EU and the politics of memory.
Current Teaching
Contribution to POLI.100
PPR.366 Conspiracy Theories in Politics and Society
PPR.341 Contemporary Issues in Human Rights (not offered in 2023/24)
PPR.391g The Politics of Global Borders (Special Subject *not offered in 2023-24*)
PhD Supervision Interests
Border and migration policy, critical migration studies, human rights, citizenship and non-citizenship in the European Union, securitization and the governance of borders.
01/11/2019 → 30/09/2021
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01/10/2019 → 30/09/2021
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31/12/2014 → 30/09/2015
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01/10/2014 → 31/12/2017
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22/05/2014 → 23/05/2014
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01/03/2013 → …
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- CILHR Centre for International Law and Human Rights
- Migrancy Research Group
- Security Lancaster
- Security Lancaster (Security Futures)
- Security Lancaster (Societal Threats)