Sara Riva holds a PhD from the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department at the Ohio State University (USA). She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow with the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Queensland (Australia). Sara’s research interests include Migration, Feminism, Colonialism, Punishment, Confinement and Border Abolition. She puts refugee issues in the United States in conversation with Europe and Australia and theorizes the border as a transnational sovereign assemblage.