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Eve Hayes de Kalaf

Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Dr Hayes de Kalaf’s work examines the use and abuse of modern-day identity-based digital development 'solutions' within and beyond the international development sector - including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - which aim to provide all people, everywhere with a legal and, increasingly, digital identity over the next decade. Her critically acclaimed book 'Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner', published with a Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican American author Junot Díaz, focuses specifically on access to citizenship across Latin America and the Caribbean examining how states can manufacture, block or deny access to citizens - including the migrant-descended - to their documentation. This includes the growing influence of international organisations such as the World Bank over facilitating the en masse introduction of digital identification systems. Her recent work on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context’ included extensive empirical research across Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the design and creation of an online digital oral history archive examining the historical origins of this major controversy.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies