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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMartha Balaguera ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on changing forms of collective political struggle and sovereignty in the Americas in the twenty-first century from a transnational feminist perspective. Recent publications include “‘La Unión Hace la Fuerza’: Learning to Struggle from the Viacrucis to the Entrails of the Migrant Detention Regime,” NACLA Report on the Americas (forthcoming), and “Chronicle of a Viacrucis: Undoing Rightlessness with Direct Action and Transnational Solidarity,” Americas Program (forthcoming). Currently, Martha is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.Helen Berents ([email protected]) is lecturer in policy and governance at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, at Queensland University of Technology. Her work on children, youth, peace, and conflict has appeared in Peacebuilding 3, no. 2 (2015): 115–25; Critical Studies on Security 3, no. 1 (2015): 90–104; and the International Journal of Feminist Politics 18, no. 4 (2016): 513–27. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Young People and Everyday Peace: Exclusion, Insecurity, and Peacebuilding in Colombia (New York: Routledge, 2018).Rachel H. Brown is assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently working on a book exploring the politics of the relationship between migrant domestic workers and their Jewish-Israeli employers in Palestine/Israel. Recent articles include “Re-examining the Transnational Nanny: Migrant Carework beyond the Chain,” International Feminist Journal of Politics 18, no. 2 (2016): 210–29, and “Multiple Modes of Care: Internet and the Formation of Migrant Care Networks in Israel,” Global Networks 16, no. 2 (2016): 237–56. She received her PhD in political science from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.Lan Duong is associate professor in the Bryan Singer Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012). She is coeditor, with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Mariam B. Lam, and Kathy L. Nguyen, of the award-winning anthology Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013). Duong is also a founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective.Yến Lê Espiritu is distinguished professor and former chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. An award-winning author, she has published widely on Asian American panethnicity, gender and migration, and US colonialism and wars in Asia. Her most recent book is Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014). Her current research examines the (im)possibilities of solidarity among refugees from the global South. She is also the recipient of numerous teaching and mentor awards, and a founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective.Ana Teresa Fernández is a visual artist who uses performance as a primary research tool in her multimedia practice. Fernández’s work includes community-based projects, public art, sculpture, performance, video, and larger-than-life oil paintings that critique cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women. Fernández uses her own experience of having migrated to the United States with her family at eleven years of age from Tampico, Mexico, to explore boundaries, myths, and stereotypes that affect those living on both sides of the US–Mexico border. Fernández has had numerous exhibitions of her oil paintings, including at the Denver Art Museum, Arizona State University, and the Nevada Art Museum. The Headlands Center for the Arts granted Fernández the Tournesol Award, and her films have been screened and won awards at festivals internationally. Fernández also has done residencies and created work in Brazil, South Africa, Haiti, Mexico, and Spain. She lives and works in San Francisco.Amrita Hari ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University. She is interested in broader questions around global migrations, gender, work, and citizenship. Recent publications include “Who Gets to ‘Work Hard, Play Hard’? Gendering the Work-Life Balance Rhetoric in Canada’s Technology Triangle,” in Gender, Work, and Organization 24, no. 2 (2017): 99–114, and “Troubling the Fields: Choice, Consent, and Coercion in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program,” International Migration 54, no. 2 (2016): 91–104.Denise M. Horn ([email protected]) is associate professor and chair of political science and international relations at Simmons College. She is the author of Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship: Civic Participation and the Future of Democracy (New York: Routledge, 2013) and Women, Civil Society, and the Geopolitics of Democratization (New York: Routledge, 2010), as well as several articles and book chapters. Horn’s work explores the relationship of civil society development to democratic growth, focusing on women’s roles as citizens, and trends in global development strategies, such as social entrepreneurship and family planning policies. Her current research focuses on the effects of international family planning policies in Southeast Asia.Maria Cecilia Hwang is a PhD candidate in American studies at Brown University and a global scholar at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University—New Brunswick. Her areas of research include gender and migration, Asian diaspora, human trafficking, and sex work.Katie Logan is assistant professor of focused inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds an MA and PhD from the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on contemporary Arabic and Arab-Anglophone literature with particular interest in theories of space and place, memory, migration, and gender.Gayle Munro works in the research team at the Salvation Army UK and Ireland Territory and is a first responder for the antitrafficking team. She is the author of Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain (London: Routledge, 2017), based on her doctoral work in geography at University College London.Serena Parekh is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, where she is the director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program, and editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Her most recent book, Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement, was published by Routledge in 2017. Her first book, Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights, was published by Routledge in 2008 and translated into Chinese. She has also published numerous articles on social and political philosophy in Hypatia, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Human Rights Quarterly.Lesley Pruitt is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Monash University’s Centre for Gender, Peace, and Security. Her books include The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing, and the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016) and Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013). She is also a coauthor, with Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon, and Catherine Hartung, of Young People, Citizenship, and Political Participation: Combatting Civic Deficit? (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).Jade Larissa Schiff is assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College. Much of her work emphasizes intrapsychic dimensions of political life. She has published a book, Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014); articles in Hypatia, European Journal of Political Theory, Telos, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Millennium, and Review of International Studies; and chapters in two edited volumes: “Power and Responsibility,” in Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young, ed. Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Loralea Michaelis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 42–62; and “Repressive Democracy: Pathological and Ontological Distortion in Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action,” in Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, ed. Bernd Fischer and May Mergenthaler (Bern: Peter Lang, 2015), 63–92.Jacqueline Stevens (http://jacquelinestevens.org/) teaches political theory at Northwestern University, where she also is the founding director of the Deportation Research Clinic (http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/deportationresearch/). Her research highlights the implications of political communities using birth, either in a specific territory or to parents defined as such by that community, as their paradigmatic rule for membership. She is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (2013–14) for her research exploring the ongoing relevance of Cervantes’s Don Quixote to contemporary fantasies about the nation and conquest. Her research on illegally detained or deported US citizens has been widely reported, including by the New Yorker, the New York Times, and NPR. Her research on private prisons illegally profiting from the labor of immigrants in their custody was pivotal for a class-action lawsuit a federal judge allowed to go forward. Her most recent book, coedited with Benjamin N. Lawrence, is Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Stateslessness (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), available open access (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625272).Magdalena Suerbaum holds a BA in Oriental studies from Philipps-University in Marburg (Germany) and an MA in Middle East and Islamic studies from the University of Exeter (UK). She is currently a PhD student at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. In September 2017, she submitted her PhD dissertation titled “Mosaics of Masculinity—Gender Negotiations among Syrian Refugee Men in Egypt.” In October 2017, she began working as a postdoctoral researcher on a project dealing with the social implications of legal statuses on recent asylum seekers in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (Germany).Maria Tanyag ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. She is also a member of the Monash Gender, Peace, and Security Centre. Her current research examines women’s bodies, indigenous knowledges, and the politics of climate change. Recent publications include “Invisible Labor, Invisible Bodies: How the Global Political Economy Affects Reproductive Freedom in the Philippines,” International Feminist Journal of Politics 19, no. 1 (2017): 39–54; and “How Women’s Silence Secures the Peace: Analyzing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in a Low-Intensity Conflict,” coauthored with Sara Davies and Jacqui True, Gender and Development 24, no. 3 (2016): 459–73.Laura Vaz-Jones ([email protected]) is a doctoral student in human geography at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include urban land struggles, informality, feminist political ecology, and race in South Africa. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 43, Number 3Spring 2018Displacement Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/695309 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.