News and Analysis from Migrant Scholars & Trustworthy Affiliates

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  • Engineering Exclusion: An Essay

    Anthropologist James B. Greenberg explains how exploitation is a foundation of the system, not a failure

  • Hostile, A Documentary

    Hostile examines the horrifying impact of government policies on migrants and refugees in Britain today. The film asks: What does it mean to be British? How does it feel to be told you don’t belong?

  • Why Wouldn't You? A Film from Ireland

    Solidarity is a practice, a choice, a movement. This short film shows how, giving voice to the lived experience of those who have been forcibly displaced.

  • Sanctuary and Resistance 2025: A Report

    Essential reading for those on the front lines protecting migrant and refugee rights: city officials, community organizations, legal advocates, and researchers.

  • A City Fights Back: How Los Angeles Defends Itself Against ICE

    This is what grassroots organizing looks like. How the working class people fight back as a class. Watch the Unión del Barrio in action.

  • The Anti-Refugee Machine

    Learn how the system works in this open-access articles on contemporary forced migration and the multitude of global and local efforts to control, steer, manage, and profit from it.

  • Tendencias Migratorias

    Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the Spanish version here.

  • Tendências Migratórias

    Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the Portuguese version here.

  • Migration Trends

    Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the English version here.

  • Shipwreck

    Small Boat, a novel by Vincent Delecroix, reviewed by anthropologist Fiona Murphy: “This slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference. It reminds us that the shipwreck is not theirs alone. It is ours too.”

  • Stop the Brutality

    The US militarized system has $170 billion for brutal immigration enforcement via Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It is time to stand up, stand against, and stop the brutality.

  • Against Deportation

    Shahram Khosravi reports on mass deportation from Iran to Afghanistan in a compelling essay that notes the global rise in racism and the intensification of anti-migrant policies.

  • We Get There Together

    The National Immigration Law Center presents the video: We Get There Together: Immigration and a People-Powered Economy.