Review – How Migration Really Works
De Haas robustly deconstructs migration myths, challenges preconceptions and provokes reflection, but alternatives to a solutionist policy perspective remain understated.
Sexuality and Borders
The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.
Thinking Global Podcast – Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown talks about their new book ‘Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber’, Nihilism as political condition, Walling, Resisting Left Melancholy and Neoliberalism.
Interview – Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan talks about terrorists as rational actors and government responses to terrorism, plus the benefits and challenges of an open borders policy.
Interview – Till Mostowlansky
Anthropologist Till Mostowlansky talks to us about his work in the borderlands of Central Asia and how globalisation, borders, and infrastructure impact peoples’ lives.
Call for Contributors – Asian Territorial and Maritime Disputes: A Critical Introduction
This book will explain the origins of the territorial and maritime disputes in Asia in an accessible way. We are accepting abstracts until 30 September.
Reversal of (Im)mobility Privilege and Borders During COVID-19
In many people’s minds, closing borders means repelling migrants. But, Covid-19 has ridiculed this assumption as borders are not vanishing but rather metamorphosing.
Decolonizing Borders
Borders are effective at constructing an ‘us’ on the inside, which is bound together through a collective narrative to the exclusion of ‘them’ outside.
Interview – Emma Mc Cluskey
Emma Mc Cluskey talks about her forthcoming book Righteousness to Far Right, anthropological approaches to International Political Sociology and radical reflexivity.
Europe’s Barbwire Fences: Reflections on Reporting the Refugee Crisis in Greece
The failure of states to protect refugees amounts to their failure to discontinue the violence created by borders. This is where a no borders politics comes as an answer.
