Brightman Makoni
Brightman's PhD project title is 'The production and policing of new categories of migrants: Zimbabwean migrant families and the UK Health and Care Worker Visa Scheme' Read more about Brightman's research.
About you
I am a full-time, first year PhD student with an interdisciplinary educational background spanning literature, communication, critical diversity, and (im)migration governance.
Project description
Adopting a postcolonial governmentality perspective, this PhD explores how the British State produces and regulates specific categories of migrants through the visa scheme for migrant care workers introduced in December 2021.
Personal interests
- The governance of immigration (law and policy)
- Power and power dynamics
- Diversity and difference
- Gender, race, and (post)colonialism
- Temporality (the sociology of time)
- Knowledge production and circulation
- Literature studies and interdisciplinarity
Teaching
- SOC3099-Racism and Society, Teaching Assistant, (2024)
Academic qualifications
- BA (Hons) English & Communication, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, 2018
- BA (Hons) Critical Diversity Studies, Wits University, South Africa, 2020
- MA Critical Diversity Studies, Wits University, South Africa, 2021
- MA Migration & Displacement Studies, Wits University, South Africa, 2023
Contact
E-mail: B.Makoni2@newcastle.ac.uk