Flowers at the US-Mexico border wall, El Paso. Photo by Ahlam Chemlali The images have become commonplace: the might of war tanks, the ubiquitous speedboats or all-terrain vehicles; [...]
Migrants pass time in a shelter in Tapachula. Photo by Wendy Vogt. On October 2, 2024, a pick-up truck carrying 33 migrants passed through a military checkpoint just [...]
Sequestrated boats originally used for migrant smuggling, Southern Italy. Photo by Luigi Achilli. European migration governance in Libya blurs the boundaries between legality and illegality, transforming migration [...]
Migrant solidarity street art in a Spanish coastal town. Photo by Wendy Vogt The world seems gripped by migration panic. In political discourse and media coverage, it appears [...]
“Welcome to Syria,” greeted the robust man as he took our passports. He was seated at a counter, behind security glass. The man, unlike the young men carrying old [...]
For artist, scholar, and educator, Gina Athena Ulysse, anthropology has been stuck in a time warp. Yet rather than beholding herself to the discipline’s conflicted standing between the humanities [...]
Photo by Monica Sedra on Unsplash. It was supposed to have been a good day. Over breakfast, Du had told me all about the story she’d written [...]
“Hope springs eternal,” 60-year-old Mr. Peters told me when I asked him how he felt when he went to bed in the evenings. “I live in hope,” he added [...]
An uncountable number of innocent people have been jailed during this government’s time … Do you understand? This is the situation of the government policy. This is why those [...]
Velu and I watched the lights of the power plant flick on about an hour before sunset. With our backs rested to the sides of his boat, we saw [...]
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