Dr. Joe Turner is a Research Fellow in International Migration at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. His research sits at the cross-section of international politics, history and sociology. At its broadest, Joe’s work explores the relationship between borders and violence in liberal states. He is particularly interested in how questions of intimacy are central to how we are governed. He has published articles in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Joe is currently writing a book manuscript on the way that ‘family’ and coloniality are bound together in the contemporary politics of mobility, it will be called Making Love, Making Empire.