Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of […]
When Humans Become Migrants
The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created
Becoming Bureaucrats
Zachary Oberfield’s work Becoming Bureaucrats (2014) provides the academic community with a glimpse into the making of police officers and
Statelessness
‘Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual
Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the
Boyhood. Twelve Years on Film
“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei,
Migrants in Translation
Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly
Governing Refugees. Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
I was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it”
The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil
Call for reviews: Recent publications on Race
It’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in