Nicholas De Genova

As delegates begin to debate Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, they must be careful not to undermine already existing rights. UN Photo/Joao Araujo Pinto/Flickr. CC (by-nc-nd). Released 5 February, and with the first round of state commentaries having already taken ...

As Nicholas De Genova has convincingly put it, “the putative 'migrant crisis' of Europe must be understood to be an historical moment of racial crisis”. Neofascist movements, which are gaining ground everywhere in Europe, profit from this racial crisis, while democratic political parties underestimate the ...

She has published extensively on prostitution, 'trafficking', and 'modern slavery', and is also the author of Prostitution, Power and Freedom (1998, Polity) and Children in the Global Sex Trade (2005, Polity). Related Articles. The border spectacle of migrant 'victimisation' · Nicholas de Genova · Immobility as ...

The Borders of "Europe": Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering edited by Nicholas De Genova (Duke University Press; 363 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as the humanitarian-security nexus at Europe's borders, and expelled migrants' associations in Africa.

Anthropologist Nicholas de Genova has suggested that the very “deportability” of undocumented immigrants makes them desirable to such employers. Meanwhile, the criminalization of people of color and of immigrants in particular lent a distinct helping hand to Donald Trump in his campaign for president, ...

As sea levels rise, lands dry out, and disasters linked to natural hazards become more common, more and more people are going to be forced to move. Are we prepared? Damage from the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004. Rignam Wangkhang/Flickr. (CC BY 2.0). Atle Solberg: My name is Atle Solberg, ...

While much contemporary literature on deportation relies on the metaphor of waste — like Nicholas De Genova's work on how migrant labor is made “disposable,” or Jock Young's concept of a “bulimic society” — these workers' experiences suggest something different: recycling. In this cycle of migration, ...

Nicholas De Genova is Reader in Urban Geography and Director of the Cities Research Group in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto ...