Borders Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/borders/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:05:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Borders Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/borders/ 32 32 Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ https://allegralaboratory.net/fear-by-numbers-on-the-rise-of-europes-illegality-industry/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fear-by-numbers-on-the-rise-of-europes-illegality-industry/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2015 05:00:49 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=4598 It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fear-by-numbers-on-the-rise-of-europes-illegality-industry/feed/ 0 Breaking walls and exploring (post-soviet) borders https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-walls-and-exploring-borders-in-the-context-of-postsocialism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-walls-and-exploring-borders-in-the-context-of-postsocialism/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:00:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=14345 We live in a world organised along BORDERS – walls, lines, marks that we cannot cross, do not dare to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-walls-and-exploring-borders-in-the-context-of-postsocialism/feed/ 0 Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World https://allegralaboratory.net/special-review-ethical-eating-in-the-postsocialist-and-socialist-world-part-3-of-3/ https://allegralaboratory.net/special-review-ethical-eating-in-the-postsocialist-and-socialist-world-part-3-of-3/#respond Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:00:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=12409 Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/special-review-ethical-eating-in-the-postsocialist-and-socialist-world-part-3-of-3/feed/ 0 Review of Border Work by Madeleine Reeves https://allegralaboratory.net/review-border-work-by-madeleine-reeves/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-border-work-by-madeleine-reeves/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:00:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=8125 In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if  object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/review-border-work-by-madeleine-reeves/feed/ 0 Rethinking Refugees: Afghan Traders and Exiles in the Former Soviet Union https://allegralaboratory.net/rethinking-refugees-afghan-traders-and-exiles-in-the-former-soviet-union-refugees/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rethinking-refugees-afghan-traders-and-exiles-in-the-former-soviet-union-refugees/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:00:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=9061 This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/rethinking-refugees-afghan-traders-and-exiles-in-the-former-soviet-union-refugees/feed/ 0 The Arab Spring: The Imaginary Borders of a ‘Revolution’ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-arab-spring-the-imaginary-borders-of-a-revolution-by-simone-maddanu/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-arab-spring-the-imaginary-borders-of-a-revolution-by-simone-maddanu/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:38:10 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=4014 To continue our discussion on ‘borders’, Simone Maddanu offers an insight into the permanent liminal time-space in which migrants who […]

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