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Vicki Squire is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research covers a broad range of topics with a strong emphasis on migration, refugees, and integration.

Their recent scholarly contributions include publications in reputed academic venues. Key papers authored by Vicki Squire are:

  • "Hidden geographies of the 'Mediterranean migration crisis'" (2020, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space)
  • "Migration and the politics of 'the human': confronting the privileged subjects of IR" (2020, International Relations)
  • "Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan" (2023, Big Data & Society)

Squire's work appears frequently in publication venues such as Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, where they have contributed three publications, as well as International Political Sociology with three publications. Other venues include Cambridge University Press eBooks, Political Geography, and International Relations.

Their fields of study fall mostly under social sciences, with extensive work in the subfields of sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, and health.

Research topics regularly addressed by Squire include:

  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Global security and public health
  • Climate change, adaptation, and migration
  • Migration and labor dynamics
  • Homelessness and social issues
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Migration, racism, and human rights

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with frequent partnerships including Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Suzan Ilcan, and Debbie Lisle.

Vicki Squire has also published books with reputable academic publishers. Notable titles include Reclaiming Migration (2021) published by Winchester University Press and Migration, Culture and Identity (2022) published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum

    Vicki Squire

  • The contested politics of mobility : borderzones and irregularity

    Vicki Squire

  • Migration and Security

    Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • Acts of European citizenship: a political sociology of mobility

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • The “Minor” Politics of Rightful Presence: Justice and Relationality in City of Sanctuary

    Vicki Squire;Jonathan Darling

  • Desert ‘trash’: Posthumanism, border struggles, and humanitarian politics

    Vicki Squire

  • Governing migration through death in Europe and the US : identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism

    Vicki Squire

  • From Community Cohesion to Mobile Solidarities: The City of Sanctuary Network and the Strangers into Citizens Campaign

    Vicki Squire

  • Reshaping critical geopolitics? The materialist challenge

    Vicki Squire

  • Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants

    Stephan Scheel;Vicki Squire

  • The contested politics of mobility

    Vicki Squire

  • Unauthorised migration beyond structure/agency? Acts, interventions, effects:

    Vicki Squire

  • Traditions of citizenship and the securitisation of migration in Germany and Britain

    Thomas Diez;Vicki Squire

  • Taking not waiting : space, temporality and politics in the city of sanctuary movement

    Vicki Squire;Jennifer Bagelman

  • Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound

    Angharad Closs Stephens;Vicki Squire

  • European citizenship unbound : sex work, mobility, mobilisation

    Rutvica Andrijasevic;Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • The anti-policy of European anti-smuggling as a site of contestation in the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’

    Nina Perkowski;Vicki Squire

  • Mobile solidarities and precariousness at City Plaza : beyond vulnerable and disposable lives

    Vicki Squire

  • Post/Humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the US

    Vicki Squire

  • ‘Integration with diversity in modern Britain’: New Labour on nationality, immigration and asylum

    Vicki Squire

  • The contested politics of mobility: politicizing mobility, mobilizing politics

    Vicki Squire

  • Post/humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things

    Vicki Squire

  • Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity

    Vicki Squire

Frequent Co-Authors

Jef Huysmans
Jef Huysmans Queen Mary University of London
Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau King's College London
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Nick Vaughan-Williams University of Warwick
Simon Dalby
Simon Dalby Wilfrid Laurier University
William Walters
William Walters Carleton University
Thomas Diez
Thomas Diez University of Tübingen
Martina Tazzioli
Martina Tazzioli University of Bologna

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