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Persons Enough to Punish: Illegality, Deportability and the Hierarchy of Personhood in US Immigration

International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that contemporary United States immigration law and policy construct a hierarchy of personhood for undocumented migrants which better explains their status as opposed to a classic binary framework of citizen/migrant. It develops a four‐layer conceptual framework of personhood including baseline personhood, membership ...
David Niculae
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Cutting Through the State: Examining Voter Alignment With Milei's Agenda and His Chainsaw Plan

Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Argentina's political landscape experienced a major shift with the unexpected election of Javier Milei as President. Known for his radical right‐wing stance, Milei has pledged to drastically minimize the state's role, proposing a public spending cut of 14% of the gross domestic product.
Giada Pasquettaz, Franco Bastias
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The El Salvador Exception in a Pacific Rim Context: Outsourced Security Governance Across the Americas and the Asia‐Pacific

Pacific Focus, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 260-272, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the 2025 US decision to deport members of the Venezuelan‐origin gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador under a $6 million incarceration agreement, arguing that the episode represents a critical evolution in outsourced security governance. By comparing this case with the 1980s deportation of Salvadoran gang affiliates, the paper
Taeheok Lee
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 693-706, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how Rohingya people, legally admitted as refugees to the United States, become available as workers by being violently separated from their places of origin, from family members, and even their own bodies. We argue that resettlement releases labor from its attachments to places and people, thus making it available for ...
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Shae Frydenlund
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Digital Crime, Dirty Money and the State: Southeast Asia's Illicit Political Economy and the Rise of Cybercrime

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 812-839, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, cyber scamming has expanded rapidly across Southeast Asia. These operations cluster in compounds within business parks, casinos, industrial zones and other real estate developments. Although organized crime is often assumed to thrive where states are weak, this article offers a politically grounded explanation for why ...
Neil Loughlin
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Introducing the Freemove Dataset: A Regional Analysis of Free Movement Regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Free Movement Regimes (FMRs) establish a mobility pathway that allows nationals of one country to enter, reside, and work within the territory of another state, extending well beyond the channels typically associated with conventionally defined migration.
Diego Acosta, Luuk van der Baaren
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Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 723-734, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Producing Mobility, Withholding Authority: Epistemic Drain and Nursing Sovereignty in Nepal

Nursing Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Global discussions of nursing in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are dominated by the language of shortage, staffing, retention, and migration. Although useful, this technocratic vocabulary obscures a deeper philosophical crisis: nurses may be numerically produced yet institutionally denied authority over knowledge, care, and ...
Animesh Ghimire
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigration and immigrant wellbeing in the United States. [PDF]

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Krannich S, Massey DS.
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