Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- RG01
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
The Uyghur Region of China (officially known as Xinjiang, known by many of its Indigenous people as East Turkestan) has been the center of the PRC's strategic program of state-sponsored forced labour.
The nearly ubiquitous forced labour in the region affects global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy, plastics to electronics, critical minerals to automobiles. This talk will discuss why the PRC government is expending so many resources on this program of oppression, on the ways the government manufactures vulnerability among its Indigenous citizens as justification for its actions, and on the discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' that international corporations use as shelter for their complicity.
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend; however, registration is required. This event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
Organiser
This event has been organised by the SOAS China Institute.
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About the speaker
Professor Laura T. Murphy is a scholar of forced labour, currently concentrating on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and international forced labour import bans. She is Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in DC, and Professor of Human Rights at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She served as a senior policy advisor during the Biden administration, tasked with leading the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to enforce the US’s forced labour laws. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and reports on forced labour globally.
Chair
This event will be chaired by Professor Rachel Harris (Professor of Ethnomusicology, SOAS Department of Music).
Contact
Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
