Leonie Ansems de Vries is a Reader in International Politics, Director of the King’s Sanctuary Programme and chair of the Migration Research Group at King’s College London. Her work combines research on migration, borders and the politics of violence with practical action and policy development on safe and legal pathways. Leonie is currently writing a monograph on the politics of exhaustion in Europe, which examines the ways in which exhaustion is employed as a tool of governance to control people forced to move and how it is endured and resisted as a lived experience.