Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer
Tijuana is a city in the north of the state of Baja California in Mexico, close to the San Isidro Land Port of Entry, where wikipedia says 20,000…
Tag: Borders
#EASA2018 – The Other Protocols
The following words, as well as two other poems to be published on Allegra in the near future were written during three plenaries at the 15th EASA Biennal…
Calais: Eighteen Months On
by Elisa Sandri Calais has frequently made the headlines in the last two decades. The history of this border as a focal point for migration dates back to…
Notes from a blurry border (Part 1): Can that mountain stop me?
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border!
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
#Review: The Road – An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans
Central to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation of Dimitris Dalakoglou’s book The Road: An Ethnogra…
The Speaking Fence
The technological sophistication on the fence includes different structures, automatic lights, speakers and cameras. From the official Facebook page of the Hungarian government. Retrieved from ht…
On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change
In 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland Journey” (边疆行). The premise of the show is…
Chaotic borderlands: Libya’s porous borders after Qadhafi
Porous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil war in Mali in 2011 and 2012, weapons…
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls? #MMTW
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. For this month’s exhibition…
Animating Resistance
Anthropology as Public Pedagogy The horned serpent serves as a witness to the events that unfold during the Pueblo uprising. Warren Montoya On January 25, President Trump signed…
Who is the Three-Headed Dog? Surveillance and migration
Charon Crossing the River Styx was painted by Joachim Patinir between 1515 and 1524. A reproduction hangs on the wall of a bar in Málaga’s centro histórico where…
‘Volunteer Humanitarianism’ in the Jungle of Calais
by Elisa Sandri This article is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni, PhD researcher, and to his family, whom I never met but I hope they’ll find…
Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self
Being and being reviewed is a play on the English title of Kajsa Ekis Ekman’s book Varat och varan: Being and being bought. Hers is an ideological diatribe…
Crossing the Border
by Iris Ruyu Lin When I returned to the U.K. from Norway on 15th of January, it was my first trip back to the country since moving to…
Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition
My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European alarmism on the subject…
Border on a Beach
by Sasha Flatau ‘Y aquí, otra frontera’ I’d been walking along a beach called Las Redes in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain with my boyfriend. It was…
Making #Remoteness in the Sonoran desert
When we think about deserts, we usually imagine them as quintessentially remote. We tend to take their remoteness as primordial rather than see it as a result of…
Introduction to the week: #Remoteness redux?
For a long time, the direction seemed to be clear: the days of remote areas were numbered and it was only a question of time before they would…
#REVIEW: The Borderlands of Race – REDUX
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in October 2016: ‘The Borderlands…
On the UK Referendum #Brexit
For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 on a promise to end austerity, throughout the…
How Immigration Policies Create Smugglers
In the spring of 2007, when I was driving with Ramón (all names have been changed), a Mexican man who lives along an unmonitored road that crosses the…
#Review: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician anthropologist, the author tries to better understand the…
The Deportation Conundrum – REDUX #BORDERS
Today we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a part of our thread…