#Review: On the Doorstep of Europe. Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
http://allegralaboratory.net/review-on-the-doorstep-of-europe-asylum-and-citizenship-in-greece/

On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum
process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification, unpredictability, and
arbitrariness” (p.217), as well as very low percentage of positive decisions.
This seminal work explores the crisis (Krisi in Greek, which also refers to
judgement) of governance and democracy as Greece is portrayed [...]

#Review: Gender in Refugee Law. From the Margins to the Centre
http://allegralaboratory.net/review-gender-in-refugee-law-from-the-margins-to-the-centre/

Since gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR
Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes and the legal
framework have constantly been influenced by questions of gender. However,
gender is no longer at the centre of refugee agenda and, as the evidence beyond
this volume suggests, even in the jurisdictions [...]

#Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
http://allegralaboratory.net/review-child-migration-and-human-rights-in-a-global-age/

Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering
reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media stories about
child and adult migrants dying in the Mediterranean (not to mention the
US-Mexico border and recent stories from Australia) and European borderlands,
the treatment of Indigenous Canadian children as the truth [...]

REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’
#BORDERS
http://allegralaboratory.net/fear-by-numbers-on-the-rise-of-europes-illegality-industry/

It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s
“fight against illegal migration” has alternately been broadcast from the
militarised Greek-Turkish border and the deadly waters around the Italian island
of Lampedusa. Yet now the migratory “crisis” has also reached Spain, whose
interior minister recently declared an emergency in response to […]

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Julie Billaud, PhD
Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Book: Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan

Editor in Chief and Moderator
Allegra Lab
allegralaboratory.net




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