You searched for borders - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:43:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png You searched for borders - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ 32 32 “Mish Hwn W Mish Hunaak”: Tracing Affective Landscapes of Exile With Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48443 When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/feed/ 0 Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48109 This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/feed/ 0 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/feed/ 0 Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/ https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47701 Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/feed/ 0 Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/ https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:01:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47632 In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/feed/ 0 Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47415 Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/feed/ 0 2: SEMESTERS https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/ https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47152 The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/feed/ 0 3: JOURNEY https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/ https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:09:56 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47203 In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic […]

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