The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreWhenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreBetween February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The first came…
Read MoreOver 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen….
Read MoreIn September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East…
Read MoreAlice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on…
Read MoreI am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push…
Read MoreAs you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities and Migration. Several compelling…
Read MoreBased on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I…
Read MoreThe past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes,…
Read MoreMullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in…
Read MoreThe screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as…
Read MoreChimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but this plan proved hardly…
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