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
Anti-hero*ines of international social, political and legal practice: An Introduction
This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the anti-hero*ine, to grasp more acutely the complexities and ambiguities in the interplay of power, agency and morality in relation to contemporary struggles for justice, rights, and social change.
How South Africa rescued humanity (and International Law) at the International Court of Justice
Since the creation of the United Nations, and in line with the civilizing mission’s rhetoric used to justify colonialism, racist