Metropolitics

The Emergence of Transnational Queer Organizing Across a Hardening US–Canada Border

Elizabeth Hessek — 2025-09-30T05:00:00Z

LGTBQ+ refugees in the United States not only face the violence of the nation's immigration policy but are also constrained by international agreements that limit Canada's ability to offer refugee status to them. Elizabeth Hessek describes how these challenges have created opportunities for transnational networks to support queer refugees wherever they may be.
As migration control has surfaced as a barometer of national sovereignty in public debate, recent migration scholarship has rejected

- From the Field / LGBTQ+, queer, community organizing, refugees, United States, Canada, North America, borders, immigration, immigration policy, networks

A “Migration Crisis”? The Myths and Realities of France's Immigration Figures

Camille Gourdeau & translated by Oliver Waine — 2022-03-11T06:00:00Z

Is France experiencing a “migration crisis”? Based on a statistical analysis of immigration figures, Camille Gourdeau shows the extent to which immigration in France is stable in terms of numbers, nationalities of origin, and justifications for successful applications.
The expression “refugee crisis” or “migrant crisis,” which has rapidly gained ground in political and media discourse since 2015, has been widely called into question by researchers specialized in the subject: some decry the

- From the Field / immigration policy, immigration, integration, migration crisis, migrants, migration, asylum

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Stephen P. Ruszczyk — 2019-06-04T05:00:00Z

The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of New York City and Paris, Stephen Ruszczyk shows how cities can strengthen mobility for undocumented youths, and for all residents, regardless of legal status.
Five years after Liang's parents left him and their hometown of Wenzhou in southeastern China, Liang, who was then 13 years old, reunited with them in central Paris. He lacked a visa to enter France, and had taken a plane,

- From the Field / RESF, immigration, immigration control, immigration policy, youth, undocumented youth, illegality, public transportation, transport, mass transit, Paris, New York, Featured

Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada

Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman — 2016-12-07T06:00:00Z

While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does not mean that the process is inevitable. As Petra Molnar and Stephanie Silverman report, recent court cases have begun to change the dynamic and offer potential glimmers of hope to immigrants and advocates.
Across the world, the borders between migration management and criminal law are being blurred in an ongoing, historical process referred to by migration experts as the

- Essays / immigration, Canada, immigration detention, immigration policy, immigration law, criminalization of migration, crimmigration

Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South

María V. Barbero — 2016-12-07T06:00:00Z

While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant politics have gained a following in Latin American countries as well. María Barbero examines rhetoric and resistance in Argentina.
It is 5:30 in the afternoon on November 22, 2016, and the sun is beaming on the faces of about 500 of us marching from Avenida de Mayo to the congressional palace in Buenos Aires. I am surrounded by flags of Bolivia, Paraguay, Senegal, and Brazil, the

- From the Field / immigration, Global South, Latin America, Donald Trump, immigration policy, Argentina, immigration control, migrant metropolis