Passing as a refugee
Borders and camps across Africa are using biometrics to track refugees. For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies.
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Keren Weitzberg
Keren Weitzberg researches problematics related to mobility, border-crossing, race-making, and biometrics.
‘Why should we speak with you?’
An interview with Ruben Andersson on his book Illegality Inc, an ethnographic account of Europe’s efforts to halt irregular migration along Spain’s borders with Africa.
Unthinking refugee studies
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
The politics of national sovereignty
What does the Catalan independence movement mean for African separatists?
To think through and beyond the nation-state
A conversation on books, borders, and belonging with Somali-American writer, Abdul Adan.
Jeffrey Gettleman’s tired tome
Jeffrey Gettleman was until recently the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He left Africans a memoir, ‘Love, Africa.’
The right to ‘eat’
Politics in many parts of Africa is often understood through a metaphor of eating – a
Kenya’s greatest virtue
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?