Foyers, housing facilities for male migrants, are well-known institutions of postcolonial
France and critical nodes in West African migratory networks. A nationwide plan to renovate …

Abstract The Arab Spring raised high expectations for political freedom, especially for
situations in which the rapid development of ICT intersects with political oppression and …

Situating the foyers within French national history while acknowledging their prominence
among diasporic West Africans, Gauz's literary account aptly captures the tension at the …

International agencies and non-governmental organisations classify Quranic schoolboys
who beg on behalf of their teachers as victims of child trafficking. The aim here is to …

During the colonial period in Africa, slavery did not disappear, although its forms underwent
extensive transformations. It was no longer legal to buy and sell people as slaves, and acts …

This article presents case studies of slaves' escapes in the Spanish Sahara, between the
1930s and the early 1950s. It shows that while Spanish authorities were often ready to help …

Les persones migrants i les organitzacions de migrants són actors cívics i polítics de
creixent interès en els fòrums de ciències socials, així com en entorns governamentals i de …

This introductory essay to the special issue Beyond Slavery and Freedom? makes concrete
suggestions how we might move beyond this binary and why we should do so. The …

The authors present their experience of revisiting the in-depth interviews collected in 1988–
1993 in the context of new research on Poland's memories of Jews and the Holocaust …

I propose here to look at the transformations of a border landscape of a small town (Jimbolia,
Romania), in a context of border opening after 1989 and industrial crisis. I focus my attention …