Jean Beaman delivers lecture on 'Suspect Citizenship'

Dr Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), engaged UCL students and staff in a seminar on "suspect citizenship", a framework and mode for understanding how colonial hierarchies are maintained in postcolonial or neocolonial societies.

Based on years of ethnographic research on France’s present antiracist movement and mobilization against state violence, Dr Beaman will introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethnoracial minorities are constantly outside of the boundaries of full societal inclusion. She argued that postcolonial plural societies like France position certain populations as suspect or suspicious, due to their ethnoracial assignment. 

This lecture was part of the UCL European Institute [Black Europe] seminar series.