The phrase “immigration enforcement” often calls to mind efforts to detain and deport undocumented migrants. Yet, governments increasingly employ strategies of exclusion – denying migrants access to public and private resources in the hope this will encourage them to voluntarily leave and deter future arrivals. This talk will discuss these practices as a way to improve our understanding of how state power operates in Europe today. Drawing on and developing the concept of infrastructural power, this talk examines how immigration enforcement requires both administrative coordination and linkages to social groups. Infrastructural power is particularly essential when it comes to exclusionary policies, which attempt to steer the behavior of individual human beings in decentralized, complex economies and societies. In the course of instituting these measures, state officials have augmented their capacities for overseeing non-migrants as well, so that all citizens and denizens are subject to increased supervision.
Co-sponsored by the Global Populisms Program
Please join Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 4:30pm for a conversation with Sergii Leschenko. Leschenko will be joined in coversation with Francis Fukuyama, the Mosbacher Director of CDDRL.
Abstract:
Sergii Leshchenko was a journalist and former member of the Ukrainian Parliament who played a role in releasing the so-called "Black Ledger" detailing under-the-table payments made by Ukraine's corrupt former President Viktor Yanukovich to a number of figures. One was Paul Manafort, President Trump's one-time campaign manager, who was subsequently convicted of money laundering and tax evasion in the Mueller probe. As a result, Leshchenko has been attacked by Rudy Giuliani and other Trump associates for "interfering" in the US election. In his talk, Leshchenko will discuss his role in the current impeachment case, set the record straight as to who is genuinely corrupt in Ukrainian politics, and explain how corruption scandals are now playing out in the politics of both Ukraine and the US.
Sergii LESHCHENKO is a Kyiv-based journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist served as Member of Ukrainian Parliament from 2014 until 2019. He was Chairperson of the subcommittee on international cooperation and implementation of anti-corruption legislation in Anticorruption Com-mittee of Parliament.
Sergii Leshchenko graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and got the Master’s degree in journalism.
From 2000 up to 2014 he worked for online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, where he specializes in anti-corruption investigations and other political reporting. He helped to launch the «Stop Censor-ship!» movement in 2010 and «Chesno» campaign that called for transparency in the Parliament.
In 2011, Poland’s Foundation of Reporters recognized Mr. Leshchenko as the best journalist within the countries of the Eastern Partnership. Most recently, in 2013, Mr. Leshchenko was awarded a Press Prize by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation.
In 2012, he was awarded a John Smith Fellowship, and in 2013 he was awarded a Draper Hills Fellowship at Stanford University.
Sergii Leshchenko was Reagan-Fascell Fellow in Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy in 2013-2014. Leshchenko was selected as one of Reporters Without Borders’ "100 In-formation Heroes-2014". In 2014 he was honoured with the NDI’s Democracy Award.
He is the author of 3 books. “The American Saga of Pavlo Lazarenko” is about investigations conducted by U.S. law enforcement agencies on former Ukrainian Prime Minister and “Mezhygirya Syndrom of Viktor Yanukovych” is about corrupt previous Ukrainian regime. Third book “The rise and fall of the oligarchs” was published in Norway in 2018.
Sponsored by: Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, The Europe Center, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
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Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program, and a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in the spring of 2022.
Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.
Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Pardee Rand Graduate School. He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House, and the Board of the Volcker Alliance. He is a fellow of the National Academy for Public Administration, a member of the American Political Science Association, and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
(October 2024)