Andrew Burridge

Dr. Andrew Burridge is a political geographer, based in the Discipline of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University.

Andrew received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2009, where he explored humanitarian-aid counter-mapping practices in the Mexico-US borderlands.

From 2013-2016, Andrew was based at the University of Exeter, where he was Lead Researcher on an ESRC-funded project concerned with asylum-seeker appeal hearings in the UK First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Tribunal.

Between 2010 and 2013, Andrew was a member of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), a consultancy that works to minimise conflict associated with international boundaries on land and at sea, based at Durham University in the UK.

Andrew also has a background in urban studies and planning (teaching and research), having received a BA(Hons) in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Melbourne, Australia (2003), and a Graduate Certificate in Urban and Global Studies from the University of Southern California (2007).

He is co-editor of Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crises (UGA Press, 2012), and has worked with several immigrant and refugee rights organisations including No More Deaths/No Más Muertes (U.S.); Bristol Refugee Rights and Right to Remain (UK); and the International Detention Coalition.