Alexandria Innes is a researcher in the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London, and a lecturer in International Politics. Alexandria specialises in the international politics of migration. Theoretically, her research is situated at the intersection of migration studies and critical security studies in International Relations. Her current project contributes to the Violence, Health and Society Consortium, funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. She is interested in using insecure migration status as an entry point to look at violent forms of insecurity provoked by social inequalities. She has published in various outlets, including International Political Sociology,
state takes precedence over their own lives. Focusing on states as persons distracts us from how violence travels across levels of analysis. States don’t do violence to one another. They inflict violence on actual living beings.