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Reviews

At the Borders of Europe

Elsa Tyszler & translated by Oliver @Waine - 13 May 2022
Against the backdrop of the deaths of 27 exiled people, who drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach...
From the Field

Lawyers and Borders: Using Legal Recourse to Oppose State Discretion?

Annalisa Lendaro & translated by Oliver @Waine - 6 May 2022
In the autumn of 2020, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France, prohibited associations...
From the Field

Refugee Encampment on Europe’s Borders

Marie Bassi & translated by Oliver @Waine - 4 February 2022
Much media attention on the issue of migration is focused on attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the often...
From the Field

The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection

Emily Reid - 2 February 2021
Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....
From the Field

From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory

Isabel Gil-Everaert - 3 March 2020
Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...
From the Field

Made in China, Sold in West Africa

Anne Bouhali & Nora Mareï & Mamadou Dimé & translated by Oliver @Waine - 31 May 2019
From a small border post between Senegal and Mauritania, Anne Bouahli, Nora Mareï and Mamadou Dimé follow the journey...
From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
From the Field

Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate

Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver @Waine - 1 April 2016
The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...
Essays

Migrant Destinies

Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver @Waine - 15 January 2014
Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...
Reviews

Migration and globalization: a tragic tale

Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver @Waine - 30 October 2013
At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...

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Featured

Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver @Waine - 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
Essays

Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change

David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran - 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field

Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words

Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver @Waine - 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
From the Field

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Stephen P. Ruszczyk - 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Interviews

Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...

Lisa Jean Moore - 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field

Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert

David Frati - 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...

Other resources online

Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...

Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...

Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...

Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...

Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...

Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...

Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...

Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City

Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...

The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...

Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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