91福利

Professor of International Politics

Deputy Head of Department

Director of Research

Co-Convenor, 91福利 Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration network - BREM 

Email: V.J.Squire@warwick.ac.uk

Bluesky: vickisquire

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Tel: +44 (0)24761 51977

Room: E1.13, Social Sciences Building

Advice and Feedback Hours (autumn term): Terms 2 and 3 - please email for an appointment

Profile

I joined PAIS in 2012, following my position as RCUK (Research Councils UK) Research Fellow at the Centre of Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University, UK. Prior to that, I was ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. I completed my PhD and my MA studies as part of the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme at the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK, with a visiting studentship at Australian National University. I have also held visiting professor positions at Sapienza University, Italy, and at Soka University, Japan.

Research interests

My research cuts across the fields of migration, citizenship, humanitarian and border studies. I focus on the policies and practices through which migration is governed, the dynamics and consequences of humanitarian practice in contexts of displacement, and the politics of migration and solidarity activism. I have undertaken this work in various contexts, including the US-Mexico border region, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Northern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

My current FCDO-funded project (2025-2027), Data Literacies in Displacement and Humanitarian Settings (DLiD+), continues work undertaken for the collaborative AHRC-funded Data and Displacement project. Data and Displacement addressed the impact of data-driven humanitarianism from the perspective of 'internally displaced persons' in north-eastern Nigeria and South Sudan. You can read the project report here. The continuation work for this project involves the production of a facilitated learning tool based on our research with displaced people. This was created with follow-up ESRC IAA funds, and is being further developed with multiple users in Abuja, Geneva, London and Nairobi during 2026-27.

During 2015-2019, I led a large-scale qualitative ESRC project with people making precarious journeys across the Mediterranean. This culminated in a co-authored book published with Manchester University Press in 2021: 鈥�. During 2015-2018 I also held a Leverhulme Fellowship examining solidarity activism in the Mediterranean. This research was published as a book with Cambridge University Press in 2020: . I also have co-edited book with Palgrave Macmillan - - as part of the on (Lost and Found? A Digital Archive of Testimonies of Migration, Displacement and Resettlement - led by , University of Reading with Vicki Squire and Suzan Ilcan).

I have published widely on the themes of asylum, sanctuary, migration, displacement, humanitarianism, border struggles and solidarity activism. I have also presented lectures by invitation across the world, including in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, the UK and the US, and held the role of Co-Editor of the flagship International Studies Association journal from 2016-2021. Together with Professor Dallal Stevens and Alba Priewe, I am Convenor of the 91福利 BREM (Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration) Network.

Teaching and supervision

I contribute to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules within PAIS, and have wide-ranging experience in teaching across Politics, International Studies and the social sciences more widely. I also have extensive experience of supervising PhD students, and welcome proposals on any of the above or related topics. Students supervised to completion include:

• Dr Mauricio Palma-Guti茅rrez, Performing Survival: Venzuelans' Migratory Journeys along the Andean Corridor (2023)
• Dr Chung Baek, Lived Experiences of Cyclone Nargis: An Analysis of the Gendered Displacement of Burmese Women and Men (2023)
• Dr Francesca Melhuish, 鈥淭here is no status quo鈥�: 鈥楥risis鈥� and Nostalgia in the Vote Leave Campaign (2021)
• Dr Shannon Mathieu, Gender, Intervention Policy, and Right to Protect (2019)
• Dr Ant贸nio Ferraz De Oliveira, The Politics of Territory in Early Anarchist Thought (2018)
• Dr Veit Schwab, Discursive Borders in EUrope (2018)
• Dr Lorenzo Vianelli, Governing Asylum Seekers: Logistics, Differentiation and Failure in the European Union鈥檚 Reception Regime (2018)
• Dr Helen Arfvidsson, On Burning Cars, Concrete and Citizenship (2014)
• Dr Jennifer Bagelman, City of Sanctuary: A State of Deferral (2012)

Recent publications

My recent works include:

• Squire, V. (2025)  (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
• Jones, B. and Squire, V. (2025) 鈥淵ou already know enough: Certainty and Ignorance in Data-Driven Humanitarianism鈥�, Geopolitics, DOI  
• Squire, V. (2024) "Global Citizenship in the Making? Generating an Inventory of Migratory Claims", Citizenship Studies,  
• Squire, V. Ak脿nle, O., Jones, B., Logo, K. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2024) 鈥淓ngaging Data Literacies in Displacement鈥� Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 5(3): 12-22. Available at:
• Squire, V. and Alozie, M.T. (2023) 鈥淐oloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-eastern Nigeria and South Sudan鈥�, Big Data and Society,
• Shamma, Y., Ilcan, S., Squire, V. and Underhill, H. (Eds.) (2023)  (Cham: Springer).
• Ilcan, S., Squire, V. and Stierl, M. (2022) , Environment Planning C: Politics and Space 40(5), August 2022.
• Squire, V. (2021) 鈥淯nruly migrations, abolitionist alternatives鈥�, Behemoth 14(3): 14-24, access for free
• Squire, V., Perkowski, N., Stevens, D. and Vaughan-Williams, N. (2021)  (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
• Squire, V. (2020)  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• Squire, V. (2020) 鈥溾��, International Relations, 34(3): 290-308, access for free
• Squire, V. (2020) 鈥溾��, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
• Squire, V. (2019) 鈥溾��, Global Affairs, 5(2): 155-162.
• Squire, V. (2018) 鈥溾��, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20(2): 441-458.
• Squire, V. (2018) 鈥溾�� Studies in Social Justice, 12(1): 111-132.
• Perkowski, N. and Squire, V. (2018) 鈥溾��, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(3): 400-417.
• Squire, V. (2017) 鈥溾��, Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly, 45(1&2): 69-89.
• Squire, V. (2017) 鈥溾��, European Journal of International Relations, 23(3): 513-532.
• Squire, V. (2017) 鈥溾��, Politics, 37(3): 254-272.

For a fuller list of my publications, please see my Publications page.