Publications

In preparation.

2024. ‘Cargando con Cuba’: Gendered Economies of Transnational Care. In preparation for Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

Under review.

2024. ‘As if the Soul Returns to the Body’: The Affective Dimensions of Stuckedness, Choice, and Returning ‘Voluntarily’ to Nicaragua from Spain.” Positively reviewed by Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, undergoing revisions.

2023. Women Stories of Becoming from Cuba and Beyond. Submitted to Canadian Woman Studies. (Elise Hjalmarson and Ruxandra Ana)

Peer-reviewed.

2024. Borders, Labor, and Beyond: Collective Reflections on Harsha Walia’s Writing, Activism, and Influence on the Anthropology of Work.” Anthropology of Work Review. Online first. (Stephen Campbell, Gerardo Rodrigues Solis, Arjan Shankar, Seth Holmes, Elise Hjalmarson, Saida Hodzic, Natasha Raheja, and Adrian Goldbolt)

2024. Comparative Moves: The Pursuit of Value and Belonging in Transnational Migration toward a ‘Better Life’. Ethnic and Racial Studies, online first. (Valerio Simoni, Jérémie Voirol, and Elise Hjalmarson)

2022. Sentenced for the Season: Jamaican Migrant Farmworkers on Okanagan Orchards. Race & Class, 22(4): 81-100.

2020. Ethnography at an Impasse? Fieldwork Reflections During a Pandemic. Allegra Laboratory. (Elise Hjalmarson, Nina Teresa Kiderlin, and Sonja Ruud)

2019. Border Imperialism, Racial Capitalism, and Geographies of Deracination. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 18(1): 107-129. (Levi Gahman and Elise Hjalmarson)

2018. Quiet Struggles: Migrant Farmworkers, Informal Labor, and Everyday Resistance in Canada. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 61(2-3): 141-158. (Amy Cohen and Elise Hjalmarson)

2015. Race, Food, and Borders: Situating Migrant Struggle in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 5(4): 77-82. (Elise Hjalmarson, Robyn Bunn, Amy Cohen, Edna Terbasket, and Levi Gahman)

Book chapters.

2020. ‘Settler Colonialism, Empire, Borders.’ In Land, God and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland. Levi Gahman. London: Zed Books. (Levi Gahman and Elise Hjalmarson)

Book reviews.

2022. Review of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World, by Ghassan Hage, Ethnic and Racial Studies, online.

2021. Review of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants, by Nandita Sharma, Interface 13(1): 393-395.

2021. Review of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, by Harsha Walia, Studies in Social Justice 15(3): 534-547.