Linn Biörklund, PhD – The Conversation

Migrants on the Mexican side of the border wait for nightfall before attempting to cross into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico a day after dozens of migrants died in a fire at a migrant detention centre in the city. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

April 11, 2023

Tragedies, not accidents: Tougher Canadian and U.S. border policies will cost more lives

Linn Biörklund, PhD, Universitat de Barcelona

Here’s why the newly amended Safe Third Country Agreement will inevitably lead to more deaths for migrants in hazardous conditions in both official and non-official migration pathways.

A Nicaraguan mother holds a photograph of her son in Mexico City during the mother’s caravan in 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

June 9, 2022

Central America’s caravan of mothers: Personal grief and political grievance

Linn Biörklund, PhD, York University, Canada

Migrant disappearances in Mexico have quadrupled. Here’s how Central American mothers searching for their disappeared children grieve and call out injustices in politically effective ways.

Erosion damage caused by Hurricane Hanna is seen along the Fisher border wall, a privately funded border fence, along the Rio Grande River near Mission, Texas, on July 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

October 5, 2020

From COVID‑19 to the climate emergency: Lessons from this global crisis for the next one

Linn Biörklund, PhD, York University, Canada

As a zoonotic virus, COVID-19 is itself a symptom of human-influenced climate change. It is also indicative of the humanitarian impact of future environmental crises.

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