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November 19, 2023
Moving Words
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – a…
October 18, 2023
The Color of Asylum
In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country, Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy for all Syri…
October 10, 2023
The Right Kind of Suffering
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the “right" kind of asylum seeker, the a…
September 12, 2023
Unsettling
On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the Un…
September 3, 2023
Filipino Time
From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (Fordham UP, 202…
August 25, 2023
Space-Time Colonialism
As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in t…
July 10, 2023
Pressing Onward
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers (U California Press, 2023) centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin…
July 5, 2023
Argonauts of West Africa
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability…
June 10, 2023
Dying Abroad
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in …
May 10, 2023
The Fluvial Imagination
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it sig…
April 23, 2023
Passport Entanglements
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations (U California Press, 2022) examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesi…
April 9, 2023
Crossing a Line
Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population o…
December 10, 2022
Oaxaca in Motion
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnati…
August 26, 2022
Cultural Labour
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, …
August 10, 2022
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using B…
July 29, 2022
The Diasporic Condition
Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultura…
July 26, 2022
Radical Resilience
Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility (Cornell UP, 2022) relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the im…
July 15, 2022
Victims of Commemoration
“Confronting the past” has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a …
July 6, 2022
The Opportunity Trap
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program (NYU Press, 2022) is the first book to loo…
June 8, 2022
Militarized Global Apartheid
In Militarized Global Apartheid (Duke UP. 2020), Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global nort…