anthropologist, geographer, social theorist, social critic
Nicholas De Genova
INTERVIEWS
2026
“Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Disappearance in the US: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova”
Mapping Absence (conducted November-December 2025; published online: April 20, 2026)
Dialogue I: “(Enforced) Disappearance in the US from a Global Perspective”
* In Spanish:
2025
“Postcoloniality, Race, and the Ruse of Asylum: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova”
(conducted by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky)
in Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotskywith Leisy Abrego, Gaye Theresa Johnson and Maite Zubiaurre, eds.
Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion (Durham, NC: Duke University Press)
2024
“From Muscular Nationalisms to Struggles for Freedom:
Interview with Nicholas De Genova and Nandita Sharma”
(conducted by Angharad Closs Stephens and Martina Tazzioli)
in Angharad Closs Stephens and Martina Tazzioli, eds. Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces (London: Routledge)
2023
“Fracturer le régime international des frontières: Pour une politique de la liberté de mouvement”
(In French translation: “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)
2020 a
“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)
2020 b
“Conversation on Global Capitalism, Borders, and Migration”
Interview with Nicholas De Genova conducted by Olivia Maury and Daria Krivonos
Kontur Number 7 (Helsinki, Finland)
Special thematic issue: “Borders & Capitalism”
2019
“Tal aldrig med pressen!” An Interview with Nicholas De Genova
Interview conducted and translated into Danish by Carolina Sanchez Boe and Christian Suhr
Jordens Folk 2019 - Number 1 (Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Association, Denmark)
Special thematic issue: “Anthropology and the Media”
2018 a
"On Migration, Borders, and Freedoms"
Interview conducted by Ananya Roy (31 January 2018)
for the New Poverty Politics podcast series of the Relational Poverty Network (published online: 29 May 2018)
2018 b
“Migration, Activist Research, and the Politics of Location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova”
Interview conducted by Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin (in two parts)
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
FocaalBlog.com (Part One: 12 November 2018 / Part Two: 14 November 2018)
* In Turkish: BirArtıBir / 1+1 Forum (27 and 30 March 2019; in two parts)
2018 c
“Mediterranean Struggles for Movement and the European Government of Bodies:
An Interview with Étienne Balibar and Nicholas De Genova”
Interview conducted by Glenda Garelli, Alessandra Sciurba, and Martina Tazzioli
in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Volume 50, Number 3 (June 2018; first published online: 17 August 2017)
Special thematic issue: “Mediterranean Movements: Mobility Struggles and the Humanitarian Frontier”
2018 d
Interview conducted by Soledad Álvarez-Velasco
e-misférica: online journal of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, Volume 14, Number 1
Thematic Dossier: “Expulsion”
2018 e
Vývoj migrace z pohledu antropologa (starting at: 15:35)
Video interview conducted and translated into Czech by Czech state television, Studio ČT24 (Prague, 4 June 2018)
2017 a
Nicholas De Genova in conversation with The Bridge Radio: Voices against Borders
Podcast of interview conducted by migration activists (Copenhagen, Denmark; 19 June 2017)
2017 b
Un diálogo con Nicholas De Genova
Interview conducted and translated into Spanish by Soledad Álvarez-Velasco
Revista Íconos (Journal of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences [FLACSO], Ecuador), Number 58
Special thematic issue:
Migraciones Internacionales en América Latina: miradas críticas a las producción de un campo de conocimientos (2017)
2017 c
“Vad vi talar om när vi talar om Europa”
Interview conducted and translated into Swedish by Emma Eleonorasdotter
Mana Volume 2017, Numbers 2-3 (15 December 2017)
2015
“The ‘European’ Question after Charlie Hebdo: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova”
Interview conducted by Martina Tazzioli, guest editor
Darkmatter: international peer-reviewed online journal of postcolonial critique Number 12
2013
"We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us":
Nicholas De Genova discusses our bordered identity
Interview conducted by Daphne Plessner,
published in Citizen Artist newspaper
Special Edition: Investigating the University's Borders and Boundaries (London, 1 May 2013)
2011 a
Invandringspolitikken bliver strammet igen og igen i USA og Europa -- men samtidig med larmen fra grænsekontrol og deportationer foregår der en stilfærdig og vedholdende rekruttering af illegal arbejdskraft, siger migrationsforsker Nicholas De Genova, der i sidste uge gæstede Danmark
Interview conducted and translated into Danish by Nina Trige Andersen, published in the daily newspaper Information (Denmark, 30 September 2011)
2011 b
An Image of Our Future: On the Making of Migrant "Illegality"
Interview conducted by Rozalinda Borcila, published in AREA Chicago #11 (July 2011)
2006
Una Mexican Chicago oltre la linea del colore
Interview conducted by Anna Curcio and Gigi Roggero (translated into Italian), published in Il Manifesto (Italy, 30 April 2006 )