The latest book in the Challenging Migration Studies book series is Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex by Ronit Lentin and Vukasin Nedeljkovic. Watch the book launch here.
Tag: Asylum Seekers
On Class and Identity Politics
I was asked by Inference Review to write a response to an article by the German Marxist economist, Wolfgang Streeck, ‘Trump and the Trumpists‘. I thank Inference for the opportunity to write this response which I learnt a lot from. I am also very grateful that…
De-racing the Border
After a few weeks silence due to other commitments, I am returning with the eighth blog post in the series to attend to the themes of borders and mobilities. My comments respond to Reece Jones’s book, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move which in sum…
Bringing Race Back in Racism in “Post-Racial” Times
I was delighted to be interviewed for the latest issue of the German Journal für kritische Migrations- und Grenzregimeforschung by Juliane Karakayali. Claudia Garcia-Rojas (@ClaudiaStellar) was kind enough to create this quote from the interview which you can read here. Save
On Jo Cox, fascism and racism: Interview with Indymedia
On Monday June 20 I was interviewed by Raymond Grenfell on Indymedia on RTR FM (Perth) about the assassination of Jo Cox, the far right and racism in Britain and Australia. You can listen again here. I tried to talk about how mainstream politics nurtures the…
Divestment protestors occupy Australian Council of Superannuation Investors Conference
Reposting news of this very important action by Divest from Detention activists: Text of pamphlet distributed at meeting of Australian Council of Superannuation investors annual conference, Melbourne, 10th May 2016. This morning, 10th May 2016, the Divest from Detention network has targeted the annual conference of…
Not Your Holocaust, Michael Pezzullo
On March 8 2016, Michael Pezzullo, Secretary of the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection, was moved to issue a press release. He felt compelled to defend the actions of his department against criticisms of what he called a ‘contentious area of public policy and…
This is what race does
Since I wrote this post I have had much time to reflect on the critique of it made by Angela Mitropoulos on her website. It is no defence that I wrote the original blogpost in a hurry and that I failed to reference the three articles…
Should Pussy Riot Boycott the Festival of Dangerous Ideas?
A Head-to-head published in The Guardian on 29 August 2014. On 11 August an anonymous group published an open letter to two ex-members of Pussy Riot. The group called on Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova to withdraw from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas taking place this…