By Cletus Alengah The International Organisation for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project reports that over 500 people have died in the process of migration since the beginning of the year.[1] The figures are harrowing when all the recorded deaths from 2014,… Continue Reading
By Hedwig Lieback The question of borders is always also a question of sovereignty. Even if not explicitly mentioned, this concept lurks in the background of debates attempting to either assert a state’s right to control ‘its’ borders or in… Continue Reading
By Brandon Vines Roosevelt Green proclaimed his innocence right until Georgia executed him by electrocution in 1985. His mother watched calmly and left without comment. Not too far away, at David’s Lounge bar in Macon, Georgia, cheers broke out among… Continue Reading
By Anita Yandle On February 25, 2021, I walked the familiar path from my apartment on the border of Morningside Heights and West Harlem to the 125th Street subway stop. Each time, I walk past the same flimsy wall guarding… Continue Reading
By Iván-Nicholas Cisneros Within the streets of New York City, posted along a temporary dark-green coated plywood wall, presumably erected as a barrier between a construction site and pedestrian flow, three wheat paste posters communicate urgent messages concerning family policing… Continue Reading