Soy Latinoamerica
Monday June 27th, 2016 with Alejandro Hernandez
Interview with Prof. Martin Geiger, winner of 2016 the Capital Educators’ Awards, and Farida Hassan, member of Mobility & Politics

Martin Geiger joined Carleton University in 2014 as a faculty member and was appointed as an Assistant Professor of “Politics of Human Migration and Mobility”. He holds a PhD and a German “Diploma” in Geography (minors Political Science and Sociology) from the University of Bonn in Germany. His research, teaching and writings focus on migration and mobility from an interdisciplinary perspective. Primary concerns are the multitude of state and non-state actors involved in governing cross-border mobility today, the various modes and ‘tools’ that have been invented to ‘manage’ flows of people, and the real-life effects these interventions have on persons crossing borders, societies and political systems. Farida Hassan has a BA in Economics & Political Science with a Concentration in International Relations. Her interest lies in migration governance at the nexus of development, security, and humanitarian action. Her Honours research essay explores the rise of the migration-development nexus in global public policy discourse and its implementation in the European Union’s Global Approach to Migration and Mobility. Prof. Geiger is also founder of Mobility & Politics is a Transnational Research Collective based out of Carleton University, Ottawa with active members in Canada and beyond http://mobilitypolitics.org/ Twitter: mobpoli Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mobpoli/ E-mail: mobpolirocks@gmail.com Prof. Geiger just recently won a Capital Educators’ Awards: http://www.onfe-rope.ca/programs/capital-educators-awards