The burden of proof to prove their gender identity is not just a legal requirement but also a lived burden and struggle for sexual and gender diverse people when they seek protection from persecution.
On a journey of becoming an utterly marginal person, one ends up arriving nowhere at all.
National belonging is in many ways a fiction. Belonging always happens locally, between specific people in specific places.
Ja, vi elsker / Yes, We Love Read More »
Europe’s migration debates reveal fissures in Jewish intellectual discourse, forcing Europe to confront its layered history, identity, and sovereignty.
Narratives Wars: How Jewish Scholars in Berlin Interpret Europe’s Migration Debates Read More »
The recent executions of American citizens in Minneapolis test Trump’s 2016 claim that he could shoot someone on the street and not lose any voters. This dark image—a threat and a prophecy—has become too real, without any clear sense of where it ends.
On Shooting People on Fifth Avenue Read More »
The identity and cultural memories of the Girmitiyas, who were forced into indentured labour, are being contested today, often to suit present-day cultural and political narratives.
Girmitiya Songs: Memory, Pain, and Resistance Read More »
Shrimp-induced migration, riverbank erosion and waterlogging are various environmental factors contributing to choices to migrate in Bangladesh, but to reframe these movements as ‘climate-induced’ would erase the political and socio-economic context in which these processes are embedded.
The pandemic revealed the precarious political and economic conditions of migrant workers in India. Their distress and their long, torturous flight from the city show how they have been rendered politically redundant and are not visible to the capital and the state as rights-bearing subjects.
Silent Footfall: India’s Migrant Worker Crisis Read More »
