Tag: immigration
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Asylum Report from the US-Mexico border (Dec, 2018)
This report looks like essential reading for understanding what is going on at the US-Mexico border right now. Thanks to @_gesanchez for sharing this! The report is based on fieldwork conducted during this past November on 8 regions along the US Mexico border. It involves extensive observations at ports of entry, extensive caselaw analysis and…
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Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status!, Thomas Nail (2018)
I just got my copy of Open Borders, edited by Reece Jones. This is a landmark collection of work on open borders and is filled with excellent contributions. I will definitely be teaching from this! You can read my chapter from the book here. Abstract The aim of this chapter is to describe the current possible…
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Migrant Cosmopolitanism (A Talk Given at Lund University, Sweden)
Here is the talk I gave today at Lund University, Sweden. Introduction The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant. At the turn of the twenty-first century, there were more migrants than ever before in recorded history. Today there are over 1 billion migrants. Migration has risen by nearly 50 percent since…
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Borders as Weapons
I am giving a couple talks in Sweden this week. Below is the first one given at Linköping University earlier today. Thank you to Stefan Jonsson and Peo Hansen for inviting me and sharing a copy of their book Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (2014). Borders as Weapons The twenty-first century will…
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We are entering a new epoch: the century of the migrant
The rhetoric of migrant “invasions” is back again. Donald Trump has recently described the caravan of Central American refugees marching to the US as “an onslaught,” “an assault on our country,” and an “invasion,” repeating the words of Robert Bowers, who shot can killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh Synagogue for supporting the refugees. The…
The Philosophy of Movement 