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Elizabeth is a final year ESRC-funded PhD student in the Department of International Relations.
Elizabeth’s research draws on Historical International Relations, state formation theory, and international political sociology to explore how the state is (re)produced amid the ‘globalising process’ of mass transnational labour migration. Tracing the materialities and ideational influences of labour migration ‘back home’, the project questions how processes of global ‘modernity’ challenge dominant conceptualisations of territorially bounded states and the so-called ‘international state system’. The project takes as its core case study post-Soviet Tajikistan and contemporary migration flows to Russia. Methodologically, research uses anthropologically informed qualitative methods (interviews and embedded fieldwork) as well as high-level archival and secondary-source historical approaches.
Elizabeth holds a Master's in Development Studies with Distinction from LSE and a BA (Honors) in Government from Georgetown University.
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IR205 International Security (LSE)