SEMINAR CANCELLED (Digital refugee livelihoods: vulnerability as an opportunity in the future of work)
Dr Andreas Hackl (University of Edinburgh)
Public Seminar Series
Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm
Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Hosted by Refugee Studies Centre
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Due to planned UCU strike action taking place from Monday 25 November to Wednesday 4 December, this seminar has been cancelled.
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2019
Series convenors: Professor Matthew J Gibney, Professor Cathryn Costello, Professor Tom Scott-Smith
About the speaker
Dr Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. He currently leads a two-year research project on digital refugee livelihoods and digital labour, which can be found online at: refugeework.net. Andreas has previously worked intensively in Israel/Palestine, both as an anthropologist and as a journalist. His anthropological research in the Middle East included work on cross-border solidarity activists in civil resistance struggles; on labour mobility and economic dispossession; on Palestinian citizenship and urban inclusion in Israel; on displacement and exile; on settler colonialism; and on the role of social mobility and migration in the global sustainable development agenda. As a journalist based in the Middle East, Andreas wrote regularly for The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) and served as Jerusalem-based correspondent for Austrian, Swiss and German newspapers.