ISSUE #14

Migration, mobility

and elections

Read our latest issue on how migrant communities mobilise to vote, the role of migrant candidates, and the impact of mobility on elections

Principle or privilege?

Local voting rights for non-EU nationals in the EU

MIGRATION & ELECTIONS

Belarus’s political capital abroad: The role of activists fighting for democracy from Lithuania

Gabriella Mikiewicz credit to arnaud-jae

Migration and political (non-)participation in origin countries: Romanians and Poles in Oslo and Barcelona

(Fiona) A traffic warden in PyongyangS.j

Thae Yong-ho: From North Korean defector to South Korean politician

(Shaddin) Joseph Owens - Displaced Senti

Displaced sentiments: Consuming national identity abroad in Kurdistan’s vote for independence

(Lena) Lam, Ka Wang Kelvin (author_s pho

Complications arising from allowing migrants to vote in their country of origin: The case of Hong Kong

Local voting rights for non-EU nationals in the EU: Democratic principle or earned privilege?

[FORTHCOMING]

Migration, mobility, and elections

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

IN THE NEWS

Carlyn GreenfieldS [State Department Pho

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

MEDITERRANEAN

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

FOOD & MIGRATION

Recipes for resilience

The 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

(Hannah) Screenshot from Christmas Conce

INTERVIEW

Life skills through music: A gift beyond music from Venezuela to Peru

CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Fuocoammare

The critical call of a silent artwork

INTERVIEW

A person of two worlds

Interview with Kacey Femi Ajayi

VIDEO INSTALLATION

What They Have Brought

Past and present of objects of exile

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