Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews
Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]
Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.
1: VISA
Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of
2: SEMESTERS
The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern,
3: JOURNEY
In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic
4: Detention
In this episode, YAIM members recount their experience of detention in Tariq al Sikka, one of Libya’s official detention centers,
5: Return
In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and
6: (Neo)colonialism
In this episode, the conversation turns to the structural conditions that make the backway feel like the only viable option
7: Advocacy
In this final episode, the conversation turns to advocacy – what it means to do it from within a country shaped