The August 2017 Issue of Politics is out now!
8 new journal articles from our Special Issue on Irregular Migration and the Politics of Agency.
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Migration
Soap Operas as a Daily Dose of Politics
It is easy to overlook the political significance of culture—especially lowbrow culture. But studying culture through soap operas can reveal how everyday life shapes politics.
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Integration against the state – The state against integration?
Why it is not possible to inhibit the integration of irregular migrants without damaging community cohesion and the integration of society as a whole.
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4 Nominations for Best Politics Article of 2016
Every Year Politics awards a prize for the best article published in the previous year's print volume. The nominations for the best article published in 2016 are...
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Human rights depend on everyday social acts
What role do sanctuary movements play in a world where states make it harder for irregular migrants to live as human beings?
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When do marginalized migrants become visible?
Unwanted migrants become visible, when they use their own agency to disrupt and subvert the system that is discriminatory towards them.
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Investigating the positionality and political agency of migrant children
How do migrant children react to the paradox of holding two seemingly contradictory subject positions at once: the (deserving) child and the (undeserving) migrant?
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