Peter Rees

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Peter Rees is a political theorist whose research focuses on migration, citizenship, and human rights. He is currently an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Studies Institute, working on the project “A Theory of Maritime Migration: Examining the Intersection of Mobile People and Territory.”

His published work investigates the relationship between universal rights and citizenship, with an empirical focus on migration. Most recently, his research investigates maritime migration. He is also interested in topics such as rightlessness, rights claiming, border violence, citizenship law, rhetorical theory, cultural heritage, and archives.

Prior to joining the University of Geneva, Peter worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded project titled “Traces of Mobility, Violence, and Solidarity: Reconceptualizing Cultural Heritage through the Lens of Migration” at Goldsmiths College, in the Department of Politics & International Relations. Before that, he was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University. Peter obtained his PhD in 2020 from Goldsmiths College.

Areas of Expertise

Migration, citizenship, human rights and maritime migration.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

2024 “The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants”, Political Geography
2024 “Counter-Archiving Migration: Tracing the Records of Protests against UNHCR”, International Political Sociology
2024 “The Nomos of Citizenship: Migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice”, Contemporary Political Theory
2021 “Rhetoric and Rights: Citizenship and the politics of persuasion” Political Studies
2017 “Making Rights Claims: Transgressing the Borders of the Political,” Tropos

Peter Rees

Peter Rees

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Publications

Edited publications & editorial positions

Review essays

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