Publications
In preparation.
2023. ‘As if the Soul Returns to the Body’: The Affective Dimensions of Stuckedness, Choice, and Returning ‘Voluntarily’ to Nicaragua from Spain. In preparation for Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Under review.
2023. Reckoning with Comparison in the Quest for a “Better Life”: Insights from Cuban and Ecuadorian Migration. Submitted to Comparative Migration Studies. (Valerio Simoni, Jérémie Voirol, and Elise Hjalmarson)
2023. Women Stories of Becoming from Cuba and Beyond. Submitted to Canadian Woman Studies. (Elise Hjalmarson and Ruxandra Ana)
Peer-reviewed.
2021. Sentenced for the Season: Jamaican Migrant Farmworkers on Okanagan Orchards. Race & Class, online first..
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.
Popular articles.
2020. Canada’s Emergency Response Benefit Does Nothing for Migrant Workers. The Conversation.
2017. Temporary Migrant Farmworkers in BC. British Columbia Organic Grower: Journal for the Certified Organic Associations of BC. (Robyn Bunn, Elise Hjalmarson, and Christine Mettler)
2014. International Migrants Day: Canada’s Exclusionary Immigration Practices Have Got to Go! Rabble.ca. (Amy Cohen and Elise Hjalmarson)
2014. Fresh Fruit, Forgotten Labour: What About Migrant Farmworkers? Rabble.ca. [Hahn]
2014. B.C. Apology to Chinese Community Highlights Ongoing Racism Towards Migrant Workers. Rabble.ca (Amy Cohen and Elise Hjalmarson [Hahn])