Wed Oct 28 · 5:15pm
The Ambivalences of Return: Diasporic Utopias and Anti-Migrant Policies
Yala Kisukidi, associate professor of French literature, thought and culture at New York University, traces the opposed meanings of “return” in a Global France Seminar talk. In Black diasporic and African anticolonial thought it named a dream of reparative justice; in the European Union's 2026 Return Regulation it is a euphemism for removal or deportation, to a land that need not be one's origin.