Reading List: Peter James Hudson
The writer, a historian of capitalism, white supremacy, and US imperialism, on four books he has been reading.
Search Result(s) for: “migration”
Is there an alternative in Germany?
As the far right surges and the center crumbles, can Germany’s left offer something different — or will reactionary forces set the agenda?
What replaced the slave trade?
What happens after abolition, when control over human movement still has a price?
At the border, on the margins
African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.
A technocratic reformulation of colonialism
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.
Germany’s Marshall Plan for Africa
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany's ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa's development.
My New York Times column about Cape Town
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
How many immigrants live in South Africa?
The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.
Mozambique’s borders
The dynamics of refuge-seeking in southern Mozambique between 1895 and the 1980s.
The political viability of anti-immigrationism
European nations increasingly look to the physical space of African nations for potential solutions to their racial and demographic anxieties.
Libya’s Race Problem
Colonel Gaddafi's alleged use of "black mercenaries," has put the question of race in Libya's revolution front and center.
An oblique public voice
Revisiting the films of Malian-born author and filmmaker Manthia Diawara.
En route to the unknown
African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.
No amount of foreign currency can justify this
The dire, often fatal, conditions that African, and in this case specifically Kenyan, domestic workers are facing in the Middle East.
The other route to the American dream
With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US — via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.
Why does Tunisia become African only when Europe needs it to be?
Tunisia is a Mediterranean market when Brussels wants trade, and an African frontier when Brussels wants border control.
Border politics
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
Italian fascists quoting Samora Machel and Sankara
The use of Marxist-inspired arguments, often distorted, to support racist or nationalist political positions, is known as "rossobrunismo" (red-brownism) in Italy.
Sex work on the other side of the sea
Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don't focus on migrant women's motives.
Nepal’s Gen Z reckoning
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment.