ISSUE #13

Homebound:

Travelling for the holidays

Read our latest issue on the stories of migrants and their families meeting during the holidays, and the barriers they encounter

Organising the COVID-19 evacuations

The people bringing Filipinos home for the holidays

TRAVELLING HOME

To visit home or not: Decision-making among foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong

Canada’s new normal: ‘Stay home’ for the holidays. International travel and its difficulties in pandemic times

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The plight of Venezuelan migrants exposes a gap in the global protection system

‘Returning is much more complicated than leaving’: Brazilians in Germany on (not) visiting ‘home’ on holidays

Alyssa - Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenkoa

Family (im)mobility during the holidays: Norway’s COVID-19 measures and the Facebook activism of families

Long journeys, transit lounges, and homeland touchdown: Homeland visits of the Indian diaspora’s youth

[FORTHCOMING]

Migration, mobility, and elections

Keep an eye out for our next issue, coming out on 20th February!

IN THE NEWS

VENEZUELA

The plight of Venezuelan migrants exposes a gap in the global protection system

LIBYA

‘This is hypocrisy’

A Q&A with Giulia Tranchina on EU migration policy in Libya

LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

In honour of Sarah

A call to recognise the complexity of queerness in exile

HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS

Recognising ‘qualified vulnerability’

The Humanitarian Corridors Project in Lebanon

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VOICES ON THE MOVE

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LINGUISTICS

Inheriting the diaspora identity: Narrating the Lebanese-Armenian language dilemma

PERSONAL STORIES

From my window

Quarantine and hunger during the rentrée at the University of Geneva

FOOD & MIGRATION

Recipes for resilience

The complex meanings behind food-related objects

REFUGE & COVID-19

“Have I really survived?”

On home, refuge, and quarantine in Rome

COVID-19, LABOUR & MOBILITY

MIDDLE EAST

COVID-19 may not have reached Syrian communities, but its domino effects have

NIGERIA

Don’t come close: The plight of street children during COVID-19’s ‘forced immobility’

ITALY

When the invisibili become essenziali: Migrant workers’ rights during the pandemic

INDIA

Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance

GUATEMALA

From the border crisis to the immobility of the town of Patzún. The Mayan people at risk

JAPAN

The forgotten workers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

CULTURE & ARTS

CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Fuocoammare, or the critical call of a silent artwork: Can art challenge the dominant European discourse?

LITERARY CRITICISM

What if this were the end of mobility

A (not so) dystopian reading of current affairs

POEM

“Desnudas”

Poesía del exilio a tres voces

VIDEO INSTALLATION

What They Have Brought

Past and present of objects of exile

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