Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont
During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused
Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva
In the context of the world we live in, one that is experiencing global apartheid and is permissive of abandonment through colonial erasure, the question I ask in this piece is, What can we expect from the law in world-making?
Antihero*ines of ambiguous spaces: accessing asylum procedures in Greece
This article explores the role of street-level bureaucrats within the migration management system in Greece, examining their discretionary powers and their involvement in either perpetuating or challenging structural ambiguities which prevent access and information.
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British EmpireÂ
Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year
Meet the smugglers.  Decolonising the mind, questioning the border
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about
The Complexity of Human Rights: A Discussion of Sally Engle Merry’s Work
Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process
The cats of Gaza or why Nakba is a multispecies catastrophe
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers,
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the