Migrant Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:44:00 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Everyday politics of migrant women at the Mexico-Guatemala U.S. proxy border /euc/research-spotlight/everyday-politics-of-migrant-women-at-the-mexico-guatemala-u-s-proxy-border/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:44:00 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=14419 How is violence targeted at people leaving Northern Central America to southern Mexico gendered? How do migrant women navigate and contest this violence? And what is the relationship between spectacularized representations of displaced peoples’ lives, bodies and actions and conventional geopolitics of displacement in the Americas? These are questions that SSHRC and GFAD doctoral candidate […]

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]]> Encountering borders in a North African city: sub-Saharan migrants’ experiences of illegalization in Tunis /euc/research-spotlight/encountering-borders-in-a-north-african-city-sub-saharan-migrants-experiences-of-illegalization-in-tunis/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:09:57 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=12542 by Hiba Sha'ath My dissertation examines the impacts of everyday bordering practices on the lives of sub-Saharan migrants with precarious status living in Tunis. Recent years have witnessed a growing securitization of migration along the Southern Mediterranean, made possible through funding and security cooperation agreements that are part of the EU’s efforts to harden borders […]

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