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I just finished final edits on my book “Crossing” on the migrant/refugee binary (out from @stanfordpress this winter), so for this #WorldRefugeeDay 
I thought I’d share the recent works on displacement that inspired me the most and who challenge the binary, even if unconsciously:
I thought I’d share the recent works on displacement that inspired me the most and who challenge the binary, even if unconsciously:
1) E. Tendayi Achiume’s 2019 article “Migration as Decolonization.” This article centers colonization and empire better than any piece on migration I’ve ever read. https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/migration-as-decolonization/
2) @FionaAdamson and @gtsourapas 2019 “The Migration State in the Global South” helped me think about which theories developed about the North might be universal and which aren’t. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0197918319879057
3) @RawanArar 2017 “The New Grand Compromise” on the geopolitics of how wealthy states keep displaced people at arms’ length. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321073074_The_New_Grand_Compromise_How_Syrian_Refugees_Changed_the_Stakes_in_the_Global_Refugee_Assistance_Regime
4) @GKBhambra 2017 “The Current Crisis of Europe” also on the colonial legacy and European cosmopolitanism https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eulj.12234
5) @jorgencarling ‘s “Meaning of Migrant” project. https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=10471
6) @heavencrawley and Dimitris Skeplaris on “categorical fetishism” was the piece I found mid-writing that was closest to what I had been trying to say. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224
7) not super new but @DaviesSaraE on the history of the 1967 Protocol and Global South resistance to it was incredibly helpful. https://academic.oup.com/ijrl/article-abstract/19/4/703/1515319
8) @bivanderdal and @Oeppen 2018 “Forced to leave?” Challenging the concepts of forced and voluntary. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384149
9) @gundogduayten ‘s amazing 2015 book “Rightlesness in an Age of Rights” https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rightlessness-in-an-age-of-rights-9780199370412?cc=us&lang=en&
10) @MYRMEK ‘s excellent work on Lebanon including https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2017.1371140
11) @lorenlandau 2019 “Chronotype of Containment” about the Europe/Africa migration relationship. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12420
12) @LucyMayblin Asylum After Empire is one of the few (only?) books I found that look at asylum policies of the Global North in a colonial context. https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/asylum_after_empire/3-156-969ab234-2088-42e2-b8f0-bfa6042ac19b
13) Jaya Ramji-Nogales on “Migration Emergencies” https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/hastlj68&div=22&id=&page=
14) @ShaKRobertson 2018 “Status Making” on migrant categorization. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1440783318791761
15) @TazreenaSajjad 2018 “What’s in a name?” also on migrant categorization. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396818793582
16) @MarinaSharpe ‘s extremely useful and thorough book The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-regional-law-of-refugee-protection-in-africa-9780198826224?cc=us&lang=en&
17) @etaparata 2019 on the concept of a refugee in early America “Refugees as you call them” https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.2.0009#metadata_info_tab_contents
18) @TomWongPhD Sebastian Bonilla and Anna Colemana reports on seeking asylum at the US/Mexico border: https://usipc.ucsd.edu/publications/usipc-seeking-asylum-part-1-final.pdf
There are many more works I am indebted to, but this amazing, interdisciplinary, and super diverse group is who I want to thank today. 
Also, it’s not about migration, but Julian Go’s 2016 “Globalizing Sociology” is a must-read for people who care about the relationship between colonialism and immigration law/policy. https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.2383/85279
