![Migrant or Prisoners ?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Upon watching the video Europe Or Die – Trapped In Bulgaria, there was a particular scene that really stuck with me. This scene happened around 3:48…
![The Privileges of Travel: A Comparison Case](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
When we think of “travel”, we think a vacation of cruises, beaches, and Instagram-worthy hot spots. When we think of “migration”, we think of sunken…
![Global Migration Film Festival -- Critique](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/10/161017_Film_Festival_Poster-psoter-470x140.jpg)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) or UN Migration Agency held a Global Migration Film Festival in December 2016 and will be holding one in…
![American-ness](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The layers of privilege and racialization in the service industry through “front of the house” and “back of the house” positions illustrate how the privileged…
![A House Divided](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
In The Positionality of the Latino– America’s Migrant Worker, Dr. Isabella Alexander dissects the various components that go into classifying how positively or negatively certain…
![How much is a human life worth?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Francesco Vacchiano’s article “On Frequent Flyers and Boat People: Notes on Europe, Crisis, and Human Mobility” raised many interesting points and critiques on the European…
![Front vs Back of House Work and "Whiteness"](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
An interesting common thread between the two articles was “this idea of labor without citizenship, as well as an uncanny recurrence of imperial formations that…
![Perception is Almost as Important as Truth](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
In Francesco Vacchiano’s piece, On Frequent Flyers and Boat People, Vacchiano addresses the narrative that there are too many bodies crossing borders, and how this…
![Behind the Scenes of Migrant Work](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
This idea of having a certain image in the work field sounded more than familiar to me, not just because i have observed it while…
![The Focus on "Illegality"](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
When addressing the visibility of “illegal immigrants” and the invisibility of the law Nicholas De Genova makes a striking point about the way we understand…
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