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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tendencias Migratorias
Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the Spanish version here.
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Tendências Migratórias
Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the Portuguese version here.
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Migration Trends
Free e-book, an edited volume available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Get the English version here.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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We Get There Together
The National Immigration Law Center presents the video: We Get There Together: Immigration and a People-Powered Economy.