This compelling article by anthropologist Stefano Pontiggia describes the migratory experience of Merule, a Nigerian migrant whose situation uncovers specific paradoxical effects of the Italian migration regime.

Anthropologist Emrah Yildiz brings us into a human story, tracing cross-border trade from Iran to Turkey showing it as a form of experimentation in mitigating US sanctions. Ethnography and analysis at its best.

From “This American Life” listen to the haunting 911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping across the United States.

The Council advances the rights of displaced communities through strategic litigation and advocacy by supporting a coalition of over 600 refugee and migrant leaders, lawyers, NGOs, advocates and academics across the world. Our collective power enables forcibly displaced people to rebuild their lives with dignity and in safety.

IDF provides invaluable resources in one central place. Theirs is an invaluable, multipronged strategy of advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communications.

An important resource profiling evidence-based detention centres in Greece and Italy, with a map, detainee testimonies, NGO reports, reports of violent incidents, and visual material.

Sébastien Bachelet’s ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a "migration crisis" and a "sub-Saharan problem" in politics of migration.

On a temporary visit to London, a Palestinian family found themselves unable to return to Gaza during Israel’s 2008 war on their city. This moving ethnography by Michelle Obeid brings readers to understand migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

A rare look at the phenomenon of onward migration, authors F. Della Puppa, F. Matteuzzi and F. Saresin bring to life the world of these “twice migrants” through comics.

A new film by Dennis Harvey set in Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers look to find safe locations for the men while the government actively enforces its policy against homeless encampments while the far-right lurks.

Check out the great videos, poems, podcasts, and resources for practitioners produced by the Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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