Encounters at the Existential Borderlands of the Mediterranean
Alessandro Corso
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829549
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Paperback
232 Pages
Hope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to Europe. Alessandro Corso argues for an understanding of this border zone not as a site of order and control, but as one of existential struggle and moral possibility.
Making Migrants is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities.
People as Protection explores civilian self-protection in Nigeria’s struggle to overcome Boko Haram, focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force, a grassroots response to the insurgency. Merging emotional insight and cultural analysis, it uncovers how hope, patriotism, and community drove ordinary citizens to confront violence and reclaim dignity.
Doctors, Documents, and the Limits of Truth in Turkey
Başak Can
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827774
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
In Forensic Fantasies, anthropologist Başak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence.
Vulnerability, Failed Systems, and the Case for Prevention
Alicia W. Peters
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512827835
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Centering the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors in New England, Trafficking Trajectories highlights the role of structural violence before, during, and after trafficking. Alicia Peters reveals opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective.
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
Chelsie Yount
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827569
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
196 Pages
Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families in Paris and Dakar negotiate “economic moralities,” and how French-born children of middle-class Senegalese, acutely aware of prejudice against Muslims in Europe, forge connections abroad that reproduce transnational kinship.
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
Lotte Buch Segal
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827934
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Through a detailed ethnographic account of the everyday lives of detainees' wives in the occupied Palestinian Territory, No Place for Grief reveals the ways in which the normalization of these women's distress is intrinsically and painfully linked to the collective struggle for freedom from the occupation.
Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City
Abdelmajid Hannoum
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827927
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
