Morris, Julia C

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor, International Studies , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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morrisjc@uncw.edu

910.962.7113

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Selected Publications

Academic Article
- Managing, Now Becoming Refugees: Climate Change and Extractivism in the Republic of Nauru. American Anthropologist. 124:460-574. 2022-01-01
- Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Refugee Processing in the Republic of Nauru. Mobilities. 16:688-706. 2021-07-01
- The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2021-01-01
- Refugee Extractivism: Law and Mining a Human Commodity in the Republic of Nauru. Saint Louis University Law Journal. 64:59-90. 2020-05-01
- Extractive Landscapes: The Case of the Jordan Refugee Compact.. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. 37:87-96. 2020-04-01
- Coping and Confinement on the Border: The Affective Politics of Music Workshops in British Immigration Detention.. Ethnomusicology Forum. 29:107-125. 2020-01-01
- The Politics of Return from Jordan to Syria. Forced Migration Review. 31-33. 2019-10-01
- Violence and extraction of a human commodity: From phosphate to refugees in the Republic of Nauru. The Extractive Industries and Society. 6:1122-1133. 2019-01-01
- Refugee Economies: Violence and Extraction of a Human Commodity. Society & Space: Special Issue ‘Destitution Economies. 2018-12-01
- Power, Capital and Immigration Detention Rights: Making Networked Markets in Global Detention Governance at UNHCR. Global Networks. 17:400–422. 2017-01-01
- Baay Fall Sufi Da'iras: Voicing Identity Through Acoustic Communities. African Arts. 47. 2014-01-01
Book
- Asylum and Extractivism in the Republic of Nauru. Cornell University Press. 2023-02-01
- Women: History, Identity, Influence. Arcturus Press. 2023-02-01
- Degree in a Book: Anthropology. Arcturus Press. 2021-01-01
Chapter
- Strange Bedfellows?: NGOs and Offshore Asylum. Routledge. 2022-01-01
- Making a Market in Refugees in the Republic of Nauru. PM Press. 2020-01-01
- In the Market of Morality: International Human Rights Standards and the Immigration Detention Improvement Complex -- Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical Perspectives. Routledge. 2016-01-01
Document
- Review of Kleinman, J. Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris.. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. 75-76. 2020-01-01
- After the flight: The dynamics of refugee settlement and integration -- Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Refuge. 157-158. 2018-01-01
- Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. Population, Space and Place. 757-759. 2015-01-01
- Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control. Space and Polity. 110-112. 2014-01-01

Presentations

Presentation
- Mobility Disjunctures: Producing Imaginaries of Pristine Pasts in Guatemalan Conservation and Containment 2022-03-22
- Commoning Mobilities 2022-02-01
- Lives and Afterlives of Extraction 2022-01-21
- Phosphate Turned Refugee Extractivism: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2021-11-15
- Migrant Struggles and Decolonizing Futures: Contesting the Offshoring and Outsourcing of Asylum in the Republic of Nauru 2021-10-01
- Mobility Disjunctures: Producing Imaginaries of Pristine Pasts in Guatemalan Conservation and Containment 2021-09-28
- Walking Wilmington 2021-05-01
- Managing, Now Becoming Refugees: Climate Change and Extractivism in the Republic of Nauru 2021-04-26
- Offshoring and Outsourcing: The Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru, Camps Across the World: Global and Local Perspectives 2021-04-26
- Offshoring and Outsourcing: The Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2021-04-26
- Anti-Asian Prejudice Panel 2021-04-21
- Migration and (Im)mobility 2021-04-15
- From Phosphate to Refugee Extractivism: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru, International Studies Association 2021-04-06
- From Phosphate to Refugee Extractivism: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2021-04-06
- Managing, Now Becoming Refugees: Climate Change and Extractivism in the Republic of Nauru, Change in Motion: Environment, Migration, and Mobilities workshop 2021-04-01
- Migration and (Im)mobility, COVID-19 and the Global Economy, Research Community in International Trade and Exchange 2021-04-01
- Can the Nauruan and the Refugee Speak?”: Imagining and Representing Offshored Asylum in the Republic of Nauru 2021-03-23
- “Can the Nauruan and the Refugee Speak?”: Imagining and Representing Offshored Asylum in the Republic of Nauru, International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE) Spring Conference 2021-03-23
- Invited guest discussant, UNCW Anthropology Day 2021-02-27
- Forced Migration and Refugees, University of Hertfordshire Global Week 2021-02-25
- Forced Migration and Refugees 2021-02-25
- Anthropology Day 2021-02-17
- Decolonizing the Literature Review, Building and Refining Strong Research Assignments, Randall Library 2021-02-02
- Decolonizing the Literature Review’ for “Building and Refining Strong Research Assignments 2021-02-02
- The Ethics of Enforced Adaptation?: Third Country Resettlement and its Significance for Migrant Integration and Adaptation in the Republic of Nauru 2021-01-01
- Ignite Talk on Research, Research Collider on International Trade and Exchange 2020-11-18
- Talks, Research Collider on International Trade and Exchange 2020-11-18
- The Architecture of Extraction: From Phosphate to Refugees in the Republic of Nauru, History of Architecture Recitation, Parsons School of Design, The New School, invited graduate seminar talk 2020-11-11
- The Architecture of Extraction: From Phosphate to Refugees in the Republic of Nauru 2020-11-11
- Oceans of (Im)Mobility, HON 110 Oceans in History 2020-10-27
- Oceans of (Im)Mobility 2020-10-27
- From Phosphate to Refugee Extractivism: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru, Extraction: Tracing the Veins 2020-06-01
- From Phosphate to Refugee Extractivism: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2020-06-01
- CFR College and University Educators Workshop, Council on Foreign Relations 2020-04-16
- College and University Educators Workshop 2020-04-16
- Outsourcing Asylum and Border Enforcement, Economics of the Environment class guest lecture 2020-04-16
- Outsourcing Asylum and Border Enforcement 2020-04-16
- Moving People: Adopting, Interrogating and Refuting Governmental Categorizations 2020-03-25
- Moving People: Adopting, Interrogating and Refuting Governmental Categorizations, International Studies Association 2020-03-01
- Migration and the Environment, Anthropology of the Environment class guest lecture 2020-02-27
- Outsourcing Asylum and Border Enforcement 2020-02-27
- Anthropology Day faculty presentation 2020-02-26
- Researching the Outsourcing of Asylum, Anthropology Day Faculty Presentations 2020-02-26
- Refugees and Human Rights in Australia’s Pacific Asylum System, Women On Wednesday (WOW) 2020-02-19
- Refugees and Human Rights in Australia’s Pacific Asylum System 2020-02-19
- Transnational Perspectives on Economic Nationalism and Contested Belonging 2019-11-21
- The Immoral Economies of Extractive Industries 2019-11-16
- Extractive Infrastructure, American Anthropological Association 2019-11-01
- The Immoral Economies of Extractive Industries, Global Environmental Justice Summit 2019-11-01
- Transnational Perspectives on Economic Nationalism and Contested Belonging, American Anthropological Association 2019-11-01
- Migration and Surfing, Global Waves (UNI101) first year seminar presentation 2019-10-08
- Migration and Surfing 2019-10-08
- Fluxes of Architectural Migration 2019-06-25
- The Value of Insecurity in the Republic of Nauru 2019-05-04
- Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Refugee Processing in the Republic of Nauru 2019-04-01
- Offshore Processing and the Devolution of Sovereignty in the Republic of Nauru 2019-03-29
- Sustainable Resettlement and Prospects for Return?: Syrian Refugees in Jordan 2019-02-18
- A Cursed Resource: The Impact of the Refugee Boom in the Republic of Nauru 2019-02-15
- Unpacking the Commodity Trail: From Jordanian SEZs to the Brooklyn Marketplace 2019-02-07
- Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Refugee Processing in the Republic of Nauru 2019-01-25
- This is Congo 2018-12-03
- From Phosphate to Refugees: The Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2018-11-29
- Migrant Scares and the Making of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru 2018-11-18
- Tackling Disasters Creatively: Cases in Indonesia and Thailand 2018-11-13
- Building New Homes: Urban Action to Address Migration Trends 2018-10-25
- Guangzhou Dream Factory 2018-10-01
- From Phosphate to Refugees: The Consequential Damages of the Republic of Nauru’s Offshore Refugee System 2018-06-15
- Manufacturing Landscapes: The Politics and Practices of the Jordan Refugee Compact 2018-06-05
- Effective Migration (Mis)Management in the EU and Beyond 2018-05-03
- Las Patronas 2018-05-03
- Refugees at the Intersection: Urban Planning 2018-05-01
- Cities, Climate and Migration 2018-04-27
- Panel Convener and Moderator, reading and discussion with Valeria Luiselli and mónica tereza ortiz 2018-04-18
- Phosphate turned refugee economies in the Republic of Nauru 2018-04-10
- (Im)mobility Economies 2018-04-04
- Extractive Moralities?: The Impact of the Refugee Boom in the Republic of Nauru 2018-03-07
- Values or Value in the Offshore Refugee Industry?: Refugees as Commodities in the Republic of Nauru 2018-03-07
- Les Sauteurs 2018-02-28
- Which Way Home 2018-02-21
- Extractive Moralities?: The Impact of the Refugee Boom in the Republic of Nauru 2017-11-29
- Fire at Sea 2017-11-15
- Harvest of Empire 2017-10-25
- Cursed Resources: The Politics of Offshore Refugee Extraction in the Republic of Nauru 2017-05-15
- From Phosphate to Refugees: The Offshore Refugee Boom in the Republic of Nauru 2017-05-02
- Offshore Extractions and the Everyday Life of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru 2017-02-09
- Values in Circulation in the Offshore Refugee Industry in the Republic of Nauru 2017-02-03
- The Offshore Refugee Assemblage in the Republic of Nauru 2016-11-22
- The Making of Refugee Industrial Frontiers in the Republic of Nauru 2016-10-20
- European Democracy Day 2015-11-23
- Architecting Refugee Law and Development for the Republic of Nauru 2015-11-22
- Godly Mechanics and (Post)colonial Future: Law and Governance in the Imperial Pacific 2015-03-16
- The Politics of Engagement in UK Immigration Detention 2014-04-08