Peter Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8419-2577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Flights across the Channel
This article traces the heritage of maritime migration across the English Channel and examines how it engenders new forms of solidarity with contemporary maritime migrants. While migrant struggles and acts of resistance are often analysed in spatial terms, recent work in migration and citizenship studies has begun to adopt a temporal approach that considers how sedimented memories of past mobilisations shape solidarity practices in the present. B…
The ‘Unfair’ refugee agency
Urban refugees increasingly resort to sit-ins outside United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices because they lack avenues for accountability. Our fieldwork reveals their experiences of neglect, mistreatment, and violence and the ways that these are compounded by UNHCR’s responses to protests, generating deep mistrust. Drawing on interviews with refugees in three protest sites and a workshop with legal practitioners, we document disturbing acc…
The nomos of citizenship
Superficially, citizenship appears relatively simple: a legal status denoting political membership. However, critical citizenship studies scholars suggest that citizenship is first and foremost a political practice. When non-citizens, such as irregularised migrants, constitute themselves as citizens through their actions, irrespective of legal status, these practices of citizenship have transformational potential because they are extra-legal. Yet…
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Counter-Archiving Migration
The archives of migration are piecemeal and scattered. This is both an epistemological problem, and a matter of political concern in an international order that forces people to migrate, racializes them, and renders them subject to violence. In response, we explore the potential of counter-archiving migration. First, we explain why archives matter politically, and consider which traces of migration are stored and which are absent or lost. Second,…
Rhetoric and Rights
This article examines the relevance of rhetorical analysis for the theory and practice of rights-claiming. Recent work in the field of human rights proposes that what is important about rights is not what they ‘are’ but what they ‘do’. Utilising performative theory, they suggest that rights-claiming is best understood as a perlocutionary practice of persuasion. The question is, ‘How might rights claims be most persuasive?’ This article applies in…
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration
Problems and Prospects of Repatriation
Transportes y comercio entre Mexico y Veracruz, 1519-1910
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Rhetoric and Rights
This article examines the relevance of rhetorical analysis for the theory and practice of rights-claiming. Recent work in the field of human rights proposes that what is important about rights is not what they ‘are’ but what they ‘do’. Utilising performative theory, they suggest that rights-claiming is best understood as a perlocutionary practice of persuasion. The question is, ‘How might rights claims be most persuasive?’ This article applies in…
Counter-Archiving Migration
The archives of migration are piecemeal and scattered. This is both an epistemological problem, and a matter of political concern in an international order that forces people to migrate, racializes them, and renders them subject to violence. In response, we explore the potential of counter-archiving migration. First, we explain why archives matter politically, and consider which traces of migration are stored and which are absent or lost. Second,…
Transportes y comercio entre Mexico y Veracruz, 1519-1910
Problems and Prospects of Repatriation
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration
Rhetoric and Rights
This article examines the relevance of rhetorical analysis for the theory and practice of rights-claiming. Recent work in the field of human rights proposes that what is important about rights is not what they ‘are’ but what they ‘do’. Utilising performative theory, they suggest that rights-claiming is best understood as a perlocutionary practice of persuasion. The question is, ‘How might rights claims be most persuasive?’ This article applies in…
The nomos of citizenship
Superficially, citizenship appears relatively simple: a legal status denoting political membership. However, critical citizenship studies scholars suggest that citizenship is first and foremost a political practice. When non-citizens, such as irregularised migrants, constitute themselves as citizens through their actions, irrespective of legal status, these practices of citizenship have transformational potential because they are extra-legal. Yet…
The Sea in Sea Rescue
This article conceptualises how the sea comes to matter for practicing solidarity with maritime migrants. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the article proposes that migration and border studies' critique of methodological nationalism (Anderson, 2020) and focus on mobility (Scheel and Tazzioli, 2022) can be fruitfully combined with the challenge that ocean studies makes towards modernity's “terracentric normative ideal” (Peters et al., 2018…
Counter-Archiving Migration
The archives of migration are piecemeal and scattered. This is both an epistemological problem, and a matter of political concern in an international order that forces people to migrate, racializes them, and renders them subject to violence. In response, we explore the potential of counter-archiving migration. First, we explain why archives matter politically, and consider which traces of migration are stored and which are absent or lost. Second,…
The ‘Unfair’ refugee agency
Urban refugees increasingly resort to sit-ins outside United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices because they lack avenues for accountability. Our fieldwork reveals their experiences of neglect, mistreatment, and violence and the ways that these are compounded by UNHCR’s responses to protests, generating deep mistrust. Drawing on interviews with refugees in three protest sites and a workshop with legal practitioners, we document disturbing acc…
Flights across the Channel
This article traces the heritage of maritime migration across the English Channel and examines how it engenders new forms of solidarity with contemporary maritime migrants. While migrant struggles and acts of resistance are often analysed in spatial terms, recent work in migration and citizenship studies has begun to adopt a temporal approach that considers how sedimented memories of past mobilisations shape solidarity practices in the present. B…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Citizenship (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · Political philosophy (3 works) · Geography (2 works)