Securitizing Identity: Populism, Migration, and Border Security

Join the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies for an insightful lecture with Dr. Elia Joey Ayoub, a postdoctoral researcher and writer. Dr. Ayoub will explore the intersections of populism, migration, and the racialization of borders in today’s global security landscape.

Drawing on case studies from the MENA region and beyond, this talk will delve into the ways these issues shape human security, offering critical perspectives on the political and social dynamics that drive securitization efforts worldwide.

This lecture will be in the context of the CCAS class Environmental and Human Security taught by Professor Marwa Daoudy. Dr. Daoudy will moderate the event.

Dr. Elia Ayoub is a postdoctoral researcher and writer. He is the founder of The Fire These Times podcast and co-founder of From the Periphery media collective. He holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis on postwar Lebanon and runs a newsletter on the region called Hauntologies.net. He can be found on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram and his work is archived at iwritestuff.blog.