What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture
Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.
Access2University and Education Pathways at UCLouvain with Elisabeth BOSTON
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Elisabeth Boston. Elisabeth is the Refugee policy officer at UCLouvain in Belgium. They speak about Access2University (A2U), a programme that aims to prepare refugees (applicants) with little or no knowledge of French to resume university studies, and Education Pathways, which is an initiative to bring displaced people to Belgium to study.
Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall
On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen
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