“Priority passengers” and other necropolitical human taxonomies
Earlier this week I wrote about two incidents of violence on planes . While these incidents differed drastically in the reasons behind them, both were …
Airborne violence: Passengers stop deportation of a Nigerian man from The Netherlands
Yesterday a man was violently removed from a United Airlines flight in the US. The video is deeply unsettling to watch. The man is dehumanized …
Machine learned cruelty and border control
The news about immigration control in the US are a daily display of cruelty. Children separated from their families, held in cages, detained in conditions …
Those who die to keep the EU safe: more migrant deaths at the Spanish border
Content warning for images of violence against undocumented migrants Image above via The Local. Caption of the image at the site reads: “A Spanish Civil …
Why I do not support the European Parliament recommendations on undocumented women migrants
I will start by doing something that I usually steer clear from which is to “explain” the European Union in a couple of sentences. This …
An update on my post about the gang rapes of undocumented and refugee women and EU responsibility
On January 15th, I wrote “In the name of European safety: the gang rapes of undocumented and refugee women”. In the post I pointed to …
Detention of “unreturnable migrants” in Europe
There are migrants in the European Union caught in a de facto “legal limbo”. They are referred to as “unreturnable” because they cannot be deported. …
Today in white European Union dehumanization – Link Roundup
Each of these items would deserve its own post with its own analysis but quite frankly, I am a bit burned out today. I can …
Italian Parliamentary dons blackface to “protest” benefits for Black immigrants
From Italy MP ‘blacks up’ for anti-migrant speech – Europe – Al Jazeera English (emphasis mine) A right-wing Italian politician smeared his face with black greasepaint …