Eleanor Paynter
Biographic Data
| ID | 823827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Paynter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Paynter |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7384-1906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stolen time
Waiting – a structural condition in the lives of migrants – is a coercive tool built into all bordering practices and one we recognize as a form of captivity, holding migrants hostage through the stealing of their time. In this article, we posit temporal captivity as a critical lens for understanding experiences of migrant detention and deportability in the Italian context, in particular in relation to ongoing crisis narratives that legitimize re…
Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape
This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews I recorded with Ukrainians displaced to Italy in what the Italian government termed the emergenza ucraina, or Ukrainian emergency, following Russia’s 2022 invasion. I discuss how narrators with temporary protection status represent or reflect on crisis time and its affective dimensions. A…
Refuting State-Centric Framings
Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdisciplinarity of the field, I focus on the ethical bounds and implications of such a shift in discursive and decolonial terms, including points on binary framings of border crossing, hierarchies of deservingness, and agency. In doing so, I consider how insights from related areas of inquiry might inform such a…
Interwoven Tales of Identity
Black Mediterranean hauntings
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
“OutLaw Yard”
Media coverage of migrant and refugee camps often concerns not everyday life in camps, but violence or a camp's outright destruction. These portrayals risk inscribing camps into public memory as sites of danger and criminality, or of vulnerability without agency. What methods of engaging with a camp's aftermath and its representation might enable more complex understandings of the reality of life in camps? We engage the camp as a site of inscript…
Testimony on the Move
With the Rome-based soundwalk initiative “Invisible Guides,” migrant narrators lead neighborhood tours, recounting Roman history while bearing witness to their own experiences. This essay discusses the potential for these testimonial transactions between authors, participants, and urban space to challenge the invisibilization of migrant realities within the city center
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness
Focusing on Europe’s 2015 crisis in Italy and drawing on Balibar’s notion of “crisis racism,” this article discusses how the amplification of the refugee/economic migrant binary in “crisis” contexts carries asylum adjudication beyond courts, into the public sphere. Analyzing policy-related discourse and interviews with asylum seekers, I discuss how crisis racism feeds a culture of suspicion toward Black subjects, and how migrants understand their…
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony
Refugee life narrative occupies a complex and contentious discursive space because its most crucial manifestation, the asylum court, serves as the setting in which a migrant's fate is determined an
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness
Focusing on Europe’s 2015 crisis in Italy and drawing on Balibar’s notion of “crisis racism,” this article discusses how the amplification of the refugee/economic migrant binary in “crisis” contexts carries asylum adjudication beyond courts, into the public sphere. Analyzing policy-related discourse and interviews with asylum seekers, I discuss how crisis racism feeds a culture of suspicion toward Black subjects, and how migrants understand their…
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony
Refugee life narrative occupies a complex and contentious discursive space because its most crucial manifestation, the asylum court, serves as the setting in which a migrant's fate is determined an
Black Mediterranean hauntings
Testimony on the Move
With the Rome-based soundwalk initiative “Invisible Guides,” migrant narrators lead neighborhood tours, recounting Roman history while bearing witness to their own experiences. This essay discusses the potential for these testimonial transactions between authors, participants, and urban space to challenge the invisibilization of migrant realities within the city center
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony
Refugee life narrative occupies a complex and contentious discursive space because its most crucial manifestation, the asylum court, serves as the setting in which a migrant's fate is determined an
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…
Testimony on the Move
With the Rome-based soundwalk initiative “Invisible Guides,” migrant narrators lead neighborhood tours, recounting Roman history while bearing witness to their own experiences. This essay discusses the potential for these testimonial transactions between authors, participants, and urban space to challenge the invisibilization of migrant realities within the city center
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness
Focusing on Europe’s 2015 crisis in Italy and drawing on Balibar’s notion of “crisis racism,” this article discusses how the amplification of the refugee/economic migrant binary in “crisis” contexts carries asylum adjudication beyond courts, into the public sphere. Analyzing policy-related discourse and interviews with asylum seekers, I discuss how crisis racism feeds a culture of suspicion toward Black subjects, and how migrants understand their…
“OutLaw Yard”
Media coverage of migrant and refugee camps often concerns not everyday life in camps, but violence or a camp's outright destruction. These portrayals risk inscribing camps into public memory as sites of danger and criminality, or of vulnerability without agency. What methods of engaging with a camp's aftermath and its representation might enable more complex understandings of the reality of life in camps? We engage the camp as a site of inscript…
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
Refuting State-Centric Framings
Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdisciplinarity of the field, I focus on the ethical bounds and implications of such a shift in discursive and decolonial terms, including points on binary framings of border crossing, hierarchies of deservingness, and agency. In doing so, I consider how insights from related areas of inquiry might inform such a…
Interwoven Tales of Identity
Black Mediterranean hauntings
Stolen time
Waiting – a structural condition in the lives of migrants – is a coercive tool built into all bordering practices and one we recognize as a form of captivity, holding migrants hostage through the stealing of their time. In this article, we posit temporal captivity as a critical lens for understanding experiences of migrant detention and deportability in the Italian context, in particular in relation to ongoing crisis narratives that legitimize re…
Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape
This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews I recorded with Ukrainians displaced to Italy in what the Italian government termed the emergenza ucraina, or Ukrainian emergency, following Russia’s 2022 invasion. I discuss how narrators with temporary protection status represent or reflect on crisis time and its affective dimensions. A…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · History (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)