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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Braving Oceans: Migration and Subjective “Illegality” from the Pilgrim Fathers to Boat Migrants

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    One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]

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    Nearly every block of the former sleepy colonial town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, Mexico now hosts a “Travel Agency”, which advertises trips to Tecate, Baja California, Altar, Sonora, and Tijuana,[...]

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    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

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    Lampedusa: Lettera al Presidente della Repubblica (Letter to the Italian President)

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    Issues of immigration, refugees, and asylum continue to blur the definition of national borders and call for a renewed debate on human rights. The Postcolonialist supports continued conversations on such[...]

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    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

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    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

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    Le 1er festival de théâtre populaire des travailleurs immigrés de Suresnes : naissance d’une lutte et d’une esthétique postcoloniales

    Author: Jeanne Le Gallic

    L’étude des courants artistiques postcoloniaux dans le champ de la recherche scientifique se caractérise par une lecture relativement tardive des mouvements et de leurs contextes d’émergence. Si les Postcolonial Studies[...]

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    Lampedusa: “An Island Full of Pain; It Carries the Weight of the World’s Indifference” *

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    (Photo Source: Arthur Urbano) * Translated from Lampedusa protest sign for Letta’s visit: http://www.giovanilampedusa.it/notizie/681-immigrati-barroso-letta-contestazioni-lampedusa.html Why should we care now? Now that it makes American news? Now that it’s translated into English?[...]

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