Nadine El-Enany is a writer and legal scholar. She is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. She specializes in

migration Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...

and refugee law, European Union law,

protest A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one. Protests can be thought of as acts of cooper ...

and criminal law.

Life

Nadine El-Enany is the daughter of the Egyptian literary scholar

Rasheed El-Enany Rasheed El-Enany (born 1949) is an Egyptian literary scholar, who specializes in modern Arabic literature. He is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ...

. She gained her PhD, on refugee law in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

and the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

, in 2012 from the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. ''After Grenfell'' (2019) was a co-edited collection of responses to the Grenfell Tower fire, emphasising the legacy of

colonialism Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colony, colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose the ...

and UK immigration policy in explaining the racialized neglect of Grenfell residents. ''Bordering Britain'' (2020) argues that contemporary UK immigration law and policy need to be seen as "ongoing expressions of

empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

..an attempt to control access to the spoils of empire which are located in Britain". El-Enany has also written for non-academic media outlets, including the '' London Review of Books'' and ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

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Works

* (ed. with Dan Bulley and Jenny Edkins) ''After Grenfell : violence, resistance and response'', 2019 * ''Bordering Britain: law, race and empire''. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enany, Nadine Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English legal scholars Immigration law scholars Race and law Academics of Birkbeck, University of London