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In Limbo

My journey through the pandemic

April 21, 2020 • by Pawel Knut

That is how my personal journey through the pandemic began. I was spending the academic year in New York City on a Fulbright scholarship at The New School. After living in the city all fall and winter, my wife and I were planning to leave at the end of April. ...

Migration

Borders in the Time of COVID-19

What the pandemic reveals about the regulation of mobility

April 17, 2020 • by Ayelet Shachar

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the significance of borders. While much attention has been paid to debates surrounding Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall,” the current crisis reveals that governments seeking to restrict mobility rely only partly (and increasingly rarely) ...

Literature

The Rest of Us Are Already Here

A lyric essay on fleeing a city in crisis

April 12, 2020 • by Nancy Barnes

The streets are empty No one’s there I stare -- is it true? Just yesterday, people streamed everywhere, high pitched humming currents of worry, rushing chunks of ice colliding The streets are empty No one’s there I stare -- is it true? Overnight Broadway goes dark, no money back ...

Migration

Essential Services

The Unique, Unadressed Plight of Undocumented Immigrants in the COVID Crisis

April 7, 2020 • by José Ángel Navejas

What makes the current crisis familiar is the sense of foreboding, of knowing oneself disposable at any moment. What makes it contradictory is the impossibility of staying put. For most of us, staying home is as unnatural as it is illogical. A violation of our faith in universal principles. If ...

Migration

Why Nationalism Hurts Us All

Eliminating borders would be revolutionary

February 7, 2020 • by Nandita Sharma

Nationalism is central to the maintenance -- and expansion -- of border control regimes. Defense of laws denying freedom of mobility across national territorial borders animate large swaths of those defined as the nation-state’s “citizens.” Anti-migrant politics is sold as an effective response to experiences of impoverishment, expropriation, and exploitation. ...

Migration

I am a Migrant

January 28, 2020 • by Mat Cusick

I moved for the first time with my family when I was three years old, for a typical reason often described as “economic opportunity.” This meant, in my father’s case, an editorial position at the newspaper in the city where he was born and raised -- what is known as ...

Migration

On Refugees and Innocence

January 16, 2020 • by Miriam Ticktin

Innocence is now the key qualifier for someone who claims to be a refugee. Paradoxically, as part of this moralized regime, innocence is also claimed by those who grant asylum. The qualification that refugees must be seen as innocent can change their fate at different points. Those requesting asylum may ...

Migration

The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex

January 10, 2020 • by Thomas Nail

This complex is composed of private companies who profit by securitizing nation-states from the effects of climate-related events, including migration. This includes private detention centers, border construction companies, surveillance technology consultants and developers, deportation and transportation contractors, and a growing army of other subcontractors profiting from insecurity more broadly. Every ...

Migration

Calais, After the Jungle

December 19, 2019 • by Liam Healy

In 2016, the Jungle camp was home to an estimated 10,000 people and was largely self-built by both displaced people and volunteers working on the site, with little state or NGO intervention. Before the camp was cleared in November 2016, I had set out to explore the ways image-making practices ...

Migration

From Offshore Detention of Refugees to Indigenous Incarceration

December 18, 2019 • by Anne McNevin

Well before this crisis, conditions in Australia’s offshore camps were described as “torture” by medical professionals, Amnesty International, and refugees themselves. Médecins Sans Frontières reported “catastrophic effects on …mental health” that are “among the worst that MSF has ever seen.” Twelve refugees have died while held offshore. Benham Satah, a Kurdish refugee who witnessed ...

From Offshore Detention of Refugees to Indigenous Incarceration

Migration

Climate Change and Forced Migration

People are displaced every second, and often by environmental calamities

December 18, 2019 • by Jane McAdam

Although most displaced people will not cross an international border, many will -- and their legal status can be precarious. Generally, they will not qualify as refugees under the Refugee Convention, which protects people with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or ...

Migration

Remote Control of Asylum Seekers

How States Evade their Protection Obligation

December 17, 2019 • by David Scott FitzGerald

Zolberg observed that regulating migration at the port of embarkation abroad “is now so familiar that we tend to underestimate its radically innovative character and its fundamental importance in regulating world-wide movement.” In Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, I show how modern remote control has become a ...