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Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […]
Narrative Abandonment: Suffering and the Hidden Costs of Solidarity in Times of War
As the all-out war in Ukraine touched the baton with the Covid pandemic in the early 2022, the plight of
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
Between Borders and Ballots
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he
The Materialities of Human Mobility as a Social Milieu
William Walter, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani’s Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion stands as a uniquely articulated
The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of
Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by
The Kobane Generation
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by