Melanie Griffiths: Deportable Fathers and Families: The Long-Term Effects of Immigration Status Insecurity
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Lecture Series FORCED MIGRATION
21. Oktober 2026, 16:15-17:45 Uhr
online
Prof. Dr. Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham)
Deportable Fathers and Families: The Long-Term Effects of Immigration Status Insecurity [EN]
This lecture examines how insecure immigration status affects not only people who are directly subject to immigration controls, but also their partners, children, and wider family relationships. Drawing on research with deportable husbands and fathers in the United Kingdom, including men who entered through the asylum system, irregular routes, family migration, or other immigration pathways, the lecture explores how deportability and prolonged status insecurity reshape family dynamics over time.
It also considers the experiences of British partners and children who are not themselves formally subject to immigration controls, but whose everyday lives and futures are nevertheless deeply affected by them.
Melanie Griffiths is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has spent nearly 20 years researching a variety of immigration and asylum topics, including around irregularity, detention, deportation, and the bureaucratic and legal sides of the immigration system
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick (Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
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FORCED MIGRATION – Lecture Series, Winter Semester 2026/2027
The lecture series is organised by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on forced migration, borders, asylum, and refugee reception. It examines how experiences of displacement are shaped by immigration and asylum regimes, legal insecurity, racialisation, gendered and intersectional inequalities, and changing infrastructures of border control and reception.
Combining theoretical debate with empirical research and perspectives from policy, activism, and practice, the series addresses border externalisation and violence, differentiated forms of vulnerability and protection, refugee agency and collective action, and the everyday negotiation of institutional constraints. It also considers questions of local reception, participation, and support, connecting wider debates on European migration governance with experiences and practices in specific national and local contexts.