In 2012, Home Secretary Theresa May told a newspaper that she wanted to create a 'really
hostile environment'for irregular migrants in the UK. Although the phrase has since mutated …

This paper argues for the decolonial feminist potential of multi-layered arts-research
collaborations for critical research committed to advancing migrant justice. It reflects on the …

In this paper, we critically analyse the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting not
only the breadth of knowledge geographers have already contributed to this assessment …

This article proposes border abolitionism as both a political and an analytical framework for
deepening critiques of border, migration, and asylum regimes worldwide. Abolitionist …

This paper stems from my long-term involvement in asylum activist communities in London
and Berlin and is an analysis of the emotional work of borders. It describes asylum seekers' …

This paper explores some of the institutional and theoretical silences within debates on
infrastructural violence with reference to migrant women survivors of gendered violence …

This article argues that refugees' confinement is enforced through a combination of spatial
tactics which restrict mobility and modes of governing by choking lifetime. Focusing on the …

Scholars are increasingly interested in and concerned with both the way various migrant
populations are categorised, and the lived impacts of that categorisation. In this article, we …

This book aims to understand the 'painful truths' of gendered violence in the city and how
women challenge it through resistance and creative practices. Drawing on an extensive …

Based on research with Latin American women in England, this paper explores how
coloniality and gendered necropower is structurally embedded into the UK immigration …