Category: Immigration

On Immigrants, Criminality, and Changing the Narrative

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 21, 2024

Hillary Clinton Needs To Retire

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2024

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Hasan Minhaj, Trauma Passports, and Immigrant Fictions

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 26, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Labour

On Titan, Migrants, and Mourning

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

I Wrote About Sharbat Gula for Evergreen Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 10, 2023

Immigration

DACA Was Always DOA: Let’s End It Now

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 19, 2021

Excerpt: DACA doesn’t need to be fortified. DACA needs to die.

Immigration On Books and Publishing

Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 15, 2014

Our work and analyses face the greatest obstacles not from the familiar bogey-man, the Right, but from a Left which is terrified of being called racist because it has painted itself into the corner of identitarianism, where politics is judged solely by the history of oppressions that can be claimed.

Immigration Labour

“Undocumented”: How an Identity Ended a Movement

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 13, 2014

Excerpt: Capital and capitalism flow unimpeded through the body of the “Undocumented and Unafraid” immigrant figure, whose only purpose is to solidify the presence of a benevolent neoliberal state through a litany of affective narratives.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration

On Malayalam and Melancholia

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

Excerpt: Am I melancholy because I am alive, or am I alive because I am melancholy?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Romancing the Border: Or, Making (Self) Deportation Sexy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 18, 2013

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.