Leonie Ansems de Vries

Dr Leonie Ansems de Vries is a Reader in International Politics, Director of the King's Sanctuary Programme and Chair of the Migration Research Group at King's College London. She previously lectured at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Nottingham in Malaysia. She holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London.

Her research interests include: governance and resistance in global politics, migration and refugees, critical approaches to security and conflict, and the politics of life and security. Her monograph entitled Re-Imagining a Politics of Life: From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement (Rowman and Littlefield) was published in November 2014. Her research has also appeared in journals such as Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She has also written a series of articles on the migration management and migrant struggles for openDemocracy .

She is Co-Investigator of the international ORA/ESRC-funded research project GUARDINT, which seeks to bridge the gap between increasingly transnational surveillance practices and national oversight mechanisms.

From 2015-2017, She co-led the collaborative ESRC-funded research project ‘Documenting the Humanitarian Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean’, which examined the effects of migration management practices on people seeking refuge in Europe. Other projects include a policy/research project on legal pathways to protection in Europe and the academic/arts projects 'We are in between' and 'Migrant Voices in London'.