Drawing on two periods of fieldwork (2007–2008 and 2019–2020) conducted between
Somaliland and Italy, this article traces, from a longitudinal perspective, the migratory …

Recent approaches to urban borderlands employ border studies theories to analyze urban
socio-spatial differentiation. Such approaches highlight how patterns of segregation …

ABSTRACT The Gauteng City-Region (GCR) in South Africa is a paradigmatic example of
extended urbanization, in which the legacy of mining and apartheid continue to impact …

This article reveals the incoherent nature of state machinery as well as the overpoweringly
humiliating effects of using identity documents as a tool of state power and identification …

This article addresses the intersection of 'homeland'politics and diaspora identities by
assessing whether geopolitical changes in Ethiopia affect ethno-national identifications …

Since the 2008 attacks on African migrants, xenophobic violence has become a form of
social agency for responding to increasing unemployment, destitution and crime in South …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montes de María, Colombia, I examine citizen‐state
relationships and experiences of the state in rural communities during the implementation of …

This article explores how child welfare policy and contemporary US immigration
enforcement come together to transform the immigrant parent into an absence that operates …

Migrant children who are vulnerable to statelessness are a growing at-risk population
worldwide, and in South Africa. Migrant children often travel unaccompanied or become …

“It is only by triangulating both depth and surface dimensions of contemporary urbanism that
we can hope to get a purchase on what is actually going on,” write Simone and Pieterse …