Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
It is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without…
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It is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without…
Read MoreI am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris: A True Story of…
Read MoreAllegra’s reviews editor curated for you this list of some of the most interesting recent releases on #kinship. It’s sometimes good to go back…
Read MoreThe Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. Darjeeling is…
Read MoreIn the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters” (Keene 2015). Keene’s need to…
Read MoreHow can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a…
Read MoreThe current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media…
Read MoreZachary Oberfield’s work Becoming Bureaucrats (2014) provides the academic community with a glimpse into the making of police officers and welfare caseworkers in the…
Read More‘Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is…
Read MoreIn September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
Read More“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly…
Read MoreContemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address…
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