Migration Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/migration/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Migration Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/migration/ 32 32 “Paris Latino”: How Latin America Migrated to Europe https://www.publicbooks.org/paris-latino-how-latin-america-migrated-to-europe/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:56 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=61344 “Paris est la capitale de l’Amérique latine,” said Mexican essayist Carlos Fuentes.

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]]> Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation https://www.publicbooks.org/imagining-intruders-to-imagine-a-nation/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:33:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60920 We are in a moment that makes clear that the border—as a regime of enmity—can make intruders of us all.

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]]> The Border is a Technology—Art Can Dispute It https://www.publicbooks.org/the-border-is-a-technology-art-can-dispute-it-vora-1/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:26:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60933 Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention.

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]]> Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter https://www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-and-stories-how-the-violence-of-border-tech-is-a-historical-matter/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60832 Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration.

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]]> Borders Are War by Other Means https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-are-war-by-other-means-chaar-lopez/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:09:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60901 The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

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]]> “If You Do Something Social, You Have to Do It Local”: Pedro Lasch on Art, Protest, and Migration https://www.publicbooks.org/if-you-do-something-social-you-have-to-do-it-local-pedro-lasch-on-art-protest-and-migration/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60632 “From the very beginning, I knew I was part of a social movement for undocumented immigrants’ rights.”

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]]> With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere https://www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tech-the-border-is-everywhere/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60540 Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.

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]]> Borders May Change, But People Remain https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-may-change-but-people-remain/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59496 The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive.

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]]> Kafala in the Time of the Flood https://www.publicbooks.org/kafala-in-the-time-of-the-flood/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59223 The opposite of Kafala is being alive.

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]]> “The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah https://www.publicbooks.org/the-basic-liberal-narrative-is-gone-immigrant-rights-and-abolition-with-silky-shah/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59155 “A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

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