Name: Nicholas De Genova
Address: US

Houston, 2023

Nicholas De Genova is a scholar of migration, borders, race, citizenship, and labor. During the 2024-25 academic year, he will be a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

He holds an appointment as Professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston, where he served as Chair of the department (2018-24). He previously held teaching appointments in urban and political geography at King's College London, and in sociocultural anthropology at Stanford, Columbia, and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as visiting professorships or research positions at the Universities of Warwick, Bern, and Amsterdam.

He received his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago.

RECENT

Articles / Chapters / Interviews:

“Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Vocation of the Intellectual”

PARISS: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, (2024) Number 5

Special Forum: PARISS Collective, “Biographical Reflections On Academic Freedom—Part One”; pp. 15-18

“Border Abolitionism: Analytics/ Politics”

(co-authored with Martina Tazzioli)

Social Text Volume 41, Number 3 (Issue #156) (First published online: 27 September 2023)

“A Racial Theory of Labour: Racial Capitalism from Colonial Slavery to Postcolonial Migration”

Historical Materialism Volume 31, Number 3 (First published online: 31 May 2023)

Special thematic issue: “Race and Capital”

“Migration, Race, and the Racializing Strategy of Borders”

International Migration, Volume 62, Number 5 (Published online: September 15, 2024)

“Commentary” on the theme of “Migration and Race”

“COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis”

(co-authored with Stephan Scheel and Soledad Álvarez Velasco)

Politics Volume 44, Number 2 (First published online: February 18, 2024)

Introduction to special thematic issue: “COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis”

“Unleashing the Capacity of Blackness: The Scene of Total Violence and the Ongoing Present of Slavery”

Cultural Dynamics Volume 35, Number 4 (First published online: 15 October 2023)

Special Book Review forum on: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Unpayable Debt

“‘A Mass Exodus in Rebellion’: The Migrant Caravans: A View from the Eyes of Honduran Journalist Inmer Gerardo Chévez”

(interview conducted and co-authored with Soledad Álvarez Velasco)

Studies in Social Justice Volume 17, Number 1 (2023)

Special thematic issue: “Farm Work, Migration and the Diverse Forms of Struggle for Social Justice”

*In Spanish: “Las caravanas migrantes: Una fuerza y forma de resistencia innegable : Conversación con el periodista honidureño Inmer Gerardo Chevez”

Desacatos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales #70 (Published online: 5 October 2022) (Mexico City)

“‘Look, an Illegal Alien!’: The Rhetorics of Migrant ‘Illegality’ and the Racialization of Mexicanness”

Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 109, Number 1 (Published online: 2 Feb 2023)

Special Book Review forum on:

Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant

“Fracturer le régime international des frontières: Pour une politique de la liberté de mouvement.”

(In French: “Shattering the International Border Regime: For a Politics of Free Movement”)

Interview with Nicholas De Genova, conducted by Mouloud Idir.

in Chedly Belkhodja, Mouloud Idir, and Élodie Ekobena (eds),

(Dé)passer la frontière. L’hospitalité en actes: La liberté de mouvement en commun (Montreal: Centre Justice et Foi/ Vivre Ensemble, 2023).

“Minor Keywords of Political Theory: Migration as a Critical Standpoint”

A collective writing project involving 22 co-authors; coordinated, co-edited, and introduced by Nicholas De Genova and Martina Tazzioli

Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space Volume 40, Number 4 (2022; first published online: March 10, 2021)

“Viral Borders: Migration, Deceleration, and the Re-Bordering of Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Communication, Culture and Critique Volume 15, Number 2 (Published online: 4 April 2022)

Special thematic issue: “Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday”

“Ukraynali Mülteciler ve ‘Avrupa’nin Sınırlari”

[In Turkish: “Ukrainian Refugees and the Borders of ‘Europe’”]

Perspektif Yil 28, Sayi 311 (Köln, Germany; 5 May 2022)

Dosya: “Makbul Mültecinin Peşinde” [Dossier: “In Search of the Appropriate Refugee”]

“The Vicious Circle: Policing and the Culture of White Male Violence”

Spectre (published online: April 13, 2021)

Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”

From the European South Number 9 (published online: 5 November 2021)

Special Focus thematic section: “Borders, Race, and Global Mediascapes: Deconstructing Violence in Politics and Representations”

“Life versus Capital: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life”

Cultural Dynamics Volume 33, Number 3 (published online: May 4, 2021)

Special thematic issue: “Post-Covid: Transforming Market Economies”

Podcast: Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation

Luke de Noronha in conversation with Nicholas De Genova (recorded 8 February 2021; posted online: 10 March 2021)

Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London

Transcript available

“American Carnage: Police Racism, Riots, and Racial Justice”

Spectre (published online: June 15, 2020)

“‘Everything Is Permitted’: Trump, White Supremacy, Fascism”

American Anthropologist Volume 122, Number 1 (published online: March 23, 2020)

Commentary, online supplement to Special Section on “The Anthropology of White Supremacy”

“Kidnapping Migrants as a Tactic of Border Enforcement”

(co-authored with Martina Tazzioli)

Environment & Planning D: Society and Space Volume 38, Number 5 (published online: May 22, 2020)

“Migration and the Question of New Political Possibilities: Nicholas De Genova and Sandro Mezzadra — In Dialogue”

PARISS: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences Volume 1, Number 2 (December 2020)

“Postcolonial Borderwork, Migrant Illegality, and the Politics of Incorrigibility”

Interview with Nicholas De Genova conducted by Fiorenza Picozza & Guillermo Castillo

Latin American Information Agency (ALAI) (December 15, 2020)

* In Spanish: Rebelión.org / Desinformémonos.org / Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI) (December 23, 2020) AlterInfos América Latina (3 March 2021)

“‘Doin’ Hard Time on Planet Earth’: Migrant Detainability, Disciplinary Power, and the Disposability of Life”

in Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, and Shahram Khosravi (eds.),

Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration (London & New York: Routledge, 2021)

“Denizenship”

in Catherine Ramírez, Sylvanna Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steve McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (eds.),

Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021)

“On Standby … at the Borders of ‘Europe’”

ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 21, Number 1 (February 2021; published online: September 4, 2020)

Special thematic issue: “Standby: Organizing modes of in|activity”

“Deportation”

in Beverley Skeggs, Sara R. Farris, Alberto Toscano, and Svenja Bromberg (eds.),

The SAGE Handbook of Marxism, 3 Volumes (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2021)

“Practices of Illegalisation”

(co-authored with Ananya Roy)

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Volume 52, Number 2

Special thematic issue: “New Poverty Politics for Changing Times” (published online: 24 January 2020)

“Fronteras virales a través de las Américas”

(Trans)Fronteriza [Journal of the “Fronteras: Movilidades, Identidades y Comercios” Working Group of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences/ Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales — CLACSO (Buenos Aires)], Number 3 (2020)

Special thematic issue: “(Im)movilidades en las Américas y COVID-19”

“The Convulsive European Space of Mobilities”

PARISS: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences Volume 1, Number 1 (2020)

“Conversation on Global Capitalism, Borders, and Migration”

Interview with Nicholas De Genova conducted by Olivia Maury and Daria Krivonos

Kontur Number 7 (Helsinki, Finland; 2020)

Special thematic issue: “Borders & Capitalism”

“Latino Studies, Latino/a/X Futures: Provocations toward a Prospectus”

Cultural Dynamics Volume 31, Numbers 1–2 (February-May 2019)

Special thematic issue: “LatinX Studies: Variations and Velocities”

“The Deportation Power”

Radical Philosophy Volume 2, Number 3 (December 2018)