Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross-Wyrtzen |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS-WYRTZEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8330-395X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Falola, Toyin, and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Becoming Fugitive
This article tells the stories of illegalized migrant people moving through two violent, transcontinental borderscapes: the EurAfrican border that spans Western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and pushes further south each year across Africa; and the American border that stretches from the interior of the United States, through Mexico and Central America, and into South America and the Caribbean. Comparative analysis of these borderscapes reveals …
Toward 'Fugitivity as Method
Recent studies on fugitivity, marronage, and other forms of flight from racial violence and dehumanization have mapped a historical and spatial archipelago of Black and Indigenous freedom struggles across the Caribbean and the Americas. Narratives of fugitivity recuperate the diverse and widespread practices of resistance and refusal that have always accompanied racial violence in these geographies. While scholars have demonstrated the ongoing-ne…
There is no race here
This article brings comparative race and ethnic studies, migration studies, and North/African studies together to investigate how local-historical conceptions of blackness intersect with contemporary border policing of 'sub-Saharan' migrants. Defining race as a historically-contingent formation, I argue that blackness emerged at various periods in North African history (from the Islamic expansion to the present-day) to signify inferior social sta…
Externalizing otherness
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Contained and abandoned in the "humane" border
This article examines the effects of Morocco's new, "humane" migration policy that claimed to center human rights and integration over securitized border enforcement. Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper demonstrates how the new migration policy expanded rather than dismantled the border regime, respatializing it from the edges of Moroccan territory into cities in the interior. Border respatialization was accomplished through abandonment,…
Intimate economies of immigration detention
In the forward to Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention, feminist geographer Alison Mountz warns the reader to ‘prepare yourself to experience sadness and anger, revelation and frustration’ (
Contained and abandoned in the "humane" border
This article examines the effects of Morocco's new, "humane" migration policy that claimed to center human rights and integration over securitized border enforcement. Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper demonstrates how the new migration policy expanded rather than dismantled the border regime, respatializing it from the edges of Moroccan territory into cities in the interior. Border respatialization was accomplished through abandonment,…
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Externalizing otherness
There is no race here
This article brings comparative race and ethnic studies, migration studies, and North/African studies together to investigate how local-historical conceptions of blackness intersect with contemporary border policing of 'sub-Saharan' migrants. Defining race as a historically-contingent formation, I argue that blackness emerged at various periods in North African history (from the Islamic expansion to the present-day) to signify inferior social sta…
Toward 'Fugitivity as Method
Recent studies on fugitivity, marronage, and other forms of flight from racial violence and dehumanization have mapped a historical and spatial archipelago of Black and Indigenous freedom struggles across the Caribbean and the Americas. Narratives of fugitivity recuperate the diverse and widespread practices of resistance and refusal that have always accompanied racial violence in these geographies. While scholars have demonstrated the ongoing-ne…
Becoming Fugitive
This article tells the stories of illegalized migrant people moving through two violent, transcontinental borderscapes: the EurAfrican border that spans Western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and pushes further south each year across Africa; and the American border that stretches from the interior of the United States, through Mexico and Central America, and into South America and the Caribbean. Comparative analysis of these borderscapes reveals …
Intimate economies of immigration detention
In the forward to Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention, feminist geographer Alison Mountz warns the reader to ‘prepare yourself to experience sadness and anger, revelation and frustration’ (
Contained and abandoned in the "humane" border
This article examines the effects of Morocco's new, "humane" migration policy that claimed to center human rights and integration over securitized border enforcement. Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper demonstrates how the new migration policy expanded rather than dismantled the border regime, respatializing it from the edges of Moroccan territory into cities in the interior. Border respatialization was accomplished through abandonment,…
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Externalizing otherness
Becoming Fugitive
This article tells the stories of illegalized migrant people moving through two violent, transcontinental borderscapes: the EurAfrican border that spans Western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and pushes further south each year across Africa; and the American border that stretches from the interior of the United States, through Mexico and Central America, and into South America and the Caribbean. Comparative analysis of these borderscapes reveals …
Toward 'Fugitivity as Method
Recent studies on fugitivity, marronage, and other forms of flight from racial violence and dehumanization have mapped a historical and spatial archipelago of Black and Indigenous freedom struggles across the Caribbean and the Americas. Narratives of fugitivity recuperate the diverse and widespread practices of resistance and refusal that have always accompanied racial violence in these geographies. While scholars have demonstrated the ongoing-ne…
There is no race here
This article brings comparative race and ethnic studies, migration studies, and North/African studies together to investigate how local-historical conceptions of blackness intersect with contemporary border policing of 'sub-Saharan' migrants. Defining race as a historically-contingent formation, I argue that blackness emerged at various periods in North African history (from the Islamic expansion to the present-day) to signify inferior social sta…
Falola, Toyin, and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Politics (3 works)