Barbara Sostaita is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she researches migration and religion. She’s currently obsessing over poems written by diaspora kids and anything Bad Bunny posts on Instagram.

Recent Articles

Waste Land: For Migrants, Water Bottles Are a Matter of Life and Death
“My Body, My Choice” Doesn’t Meet the Demand of this Moment
“Of Women and Salt” Treats Immigrant Mothers as More Than Martyrs
Forced Collection: Abolishing ICE Is a Call for Reproductive Justice
The Uncounted: Ending the Census Early Maintains White Political Power
Free Radicals: Abolition’s Roots in Healing Are a Key to Its Future
Undivine Intervention: Do We Need Religious Faith to Defend Humanitarian Aid?
Weaving the Wall: Devotional Art Counters State Violence in the Borderlands
Contagion Is Not the Crisis: COVID-19 Is a Chance to Rethink Stereotypes About Immigrants
Listening for Footsteps: Offering Brief Safety in a Hostile Place