migration Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/migration/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 19 May 2026 18:27:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png migration Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/migration/ 32 32 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/feed/ 0 Access2University and Education Pathways at UCLouvain with Elisabeth BOSTON https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/ https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:42:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47629 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/feed/ 0 Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/ https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47485 On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/feed/ 0 Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47415 Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/feed/ 0 1: VISA https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:31:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46875 Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/feed/ 0 2: SEMESTERS https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/ https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47152 The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/feed/ 0 3: JOURNEY https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/ https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:09:56 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47203 In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/feed/ 0 4: Detention https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/ https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:49:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47397 In this episode, YAIM members recount their experience of detention in Tariq al Sikka, one of Libya’s official detention centers, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/feed/ 0 5: Return https://allegralaboratory.net/return/ https://allegralaboratory.net/return/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47476 In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/return/feed/ 0 6: (Neo)colonialism https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:23:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47600 In this episode, the conversation turns to the structural conditions that make the backway feel like the only viable option […]

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