human rights Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/human-rights/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:37:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png human rights Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/human-rights/ 32 32 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 Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/ https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48102 Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/feed/ 0 Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/ https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46903 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?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/feed/ 0 Antihero*ines of ambiguous spaces: accessing asylum procedures in Greece https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/ https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46723 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/feed/ 0 Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire  https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:00:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45609 Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/feed/ 0 Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/ https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45343 Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/feed/ 0 Meet the smugglers.  Decolonising the mind, questioning the border https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/ https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43332 To A. and O., for better or for worse.  The story I want to tell might seem to be about […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/feed/ 0 The Complexity of Human Rights: A Discussion of Sally Engle Merry’s Work https://allegralaboratory.net/the-complexity-of-human-rights-a-discussion-of-sally-engle-merrys-work/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-complexity-of-human-rights-a-discussion-of-sally-engle-merrys-work/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:22:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41461 Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-complexity-of-human-rights-a-discussion-of-sally-engle-merrys-work/feed/ 0 The cats of Gaza or why Nakba is a multispecies catastrophe https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cats-of-gaza-or-why-nakba-is-a-multispecies-catastrophe/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cats-of-gaza-or-why-nakba-is-a-multispecies-catastrophe/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:44:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41021 Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cats-of-gaza-or-why-nakba-is-a-multispecies-catastrophe/feed/ 2 The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile https://allegralaboratory.net/the-right-to-dignity-housing-struggles-city-making-and-citizenship-in-urban-chile/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-right-to-dignity-housing-struggles-city-making-and-citizenship-in-urban-chile/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:00:29 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40151 How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the […]

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