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Migration

How the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism writ large

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By Parvati Nair
March 15, 2023

The Rwanda scheme presents troubling echoes of the UK’s imperial past: the colonial transportation of slaves and indentured workers across continents and seas..

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Migration

The rights of refugees in Africa are under threat: what can be done?

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By Parvati Nair
March 14, 2023

Only by honouring legal humanitarian commitments and empowering its refugees can African states develop in ways that are sustainable.

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Photography

Africa’s Future through the Lens of Malick Sidibé

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By Parvati Nair
January 12, 2021

The writing of history, like the taking of a photograph, is, by definition, a process of selection.

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Migration

India’s internal migrants are citizens too – the government must protect them

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By Parvati Nair
June 15, 2020

The largest mass migrations in South Asia since the time of partition are taking place in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indians are on the move in every direction from the major urban centres, criss-crossing the nation on their way homeward to towns and villages across the country.

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Photography

The Family Photo: Inventing Time, Place, and Memory

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By Parvati Nair
May 27, 2020

..the question of how implicated the personal and the public are through family photography, as both seek to construct, reconstruct, and invent histories lived against the ephemera of time and place.

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Migration

Death at the Mexico-US Border: from reaction to engagement

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By Parvati Nair
July 08, 2019

Yet again, a photograph erupts into the collective sightline: a picture of a father and child who drowned whilst attempting to cross over from Mexico to the United States.

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Photography Culture Migration

Changing places: Between here & there, the local & the global

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By Parvati Nair
February 26, 2019

Who exactly is a migrant? Is it my fellow traveller, the person queuing at the border or the neighbour from another country who lives next door to me but, like me, came here from another place? Who, among us all, is not a migrant?

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Migration

Sealed lips, sealed borders: contemporary human mobility and the imperative of language

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By Parvati Nair
November 17, 2017

A call to rethink the language of migration in order to recognise the humans at the heart of migration debates.

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