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. Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other. My name is Alex Doherty and today my guest is Bridget Anderson.

We'll be talking about how the idea of the migrant is mediated through race and class,

the case for no borders,

and the way in which the mobility of populations within nation states

was viewed as a threat in the pre-capitalist era.

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patreon.com forward slash poll theory other. Bridget Anderson is Director of Migration Mobilities, Bristol,

and Professor of Migration Mobilities and Citizenship. She's the author of Us and Them,

the Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls, published by Oxford University Press,

and also Doing the Dirty Work, the global politics of domestic labour,

which was published by Zed Books in 2000.

Today's interview was recorded shortly after the Home Secretary Sajad Javid

moved to revoke the citizenship of Shemima Begham,

who travelled to Syria at the age of 15 to join ISIS.

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