I A warm spring night in Woodside, Queens, and no one is in sight on the sidewalks. But inside a venue on a deserted street, a crowd of Mexican [...]
The Mural Zapatista, created in 2001 in New York City’s El Barrio, can be regarded as an unintended outcome of decades of free trade in the North American region. [...]
Figure 1. Francis Perkins Building, U.S. Department of Labor. Photo by author. In the three decades following the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), [...]
Figure 1. Some of the books I used in my NAFTA: Anthropology of Free Trade course and/or that helped me prepare its conceptual framework. Photograph by Alejandra González [...]
AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 2000. Samiri Hernández Hiraldo, visiting assistant professor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, interviews [...]
More than death, some migrants fear returning empty-handed from the EU African borderlands. This Liberian migrant in Niger shows his empty hands after losing his money and almost [...]
“No Kings Day” sign in New York City, June 14, 2025. Photo by Alexandra Délano Alonso. I began writing this essay in June 2025 as the Trump [...]
Activists from Boza Fii Association at the Push Back Frontex event in Dalifort, Senegal, 2023. Photo courtesy of Boza Fii/ Alassane Sow. “Without visas, migrating by boat [...]
Transport of equipment for illegal small-scale mining at Kenkyere Barrier, Ghana. Photo by H.A. Agyekum Although bordering practice is often accompanied by militarized security and violence, in [...]
Traders outside Mayom, Unity State, 2024. Photo by Mawal Marko Gatkuoth. In the last twenty years, a rapid succession of crises—floods, droughts, rebellions, and national wars in [...]
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