For those of us concerned with the violence of borders, it is difficult to imagine a bleaker moment. Worldwide, government efforts to stay the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in stringent im/migration controls, sweeping border closures, and travel bans. While arguably few lives continue undisrupted, some of the most acutely affected by pandemic restrictions are those whose mobility such regimes were designed to curtail—Migrants or ‘people out of place’.

Read Elise Hjalmarson's review of Nandita Sharma's,  Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 384pp..