I write across multiple registers: academic papers where I develop concepts related to migration, belonging, institutional frameworks; essays that look at the intimate as a site where the political plays out more quietly; and a newsletter at the edge of both, where I also share personal reflections. I have more forthcoming work, as well as published collaborative work that doesn’t feature on this list. If you are interested in knowing more, please reach out! I am also happy to send over any copy of the papers where they live behind a paywall.
Newsletter
Monthly, reflective, more personal, loosely adjacent to the research.
Essays and public writing
Architecture of exhaustion: Friction, dignity and the six-square-meter cell · Collateral Journal, forthcoming
Peer-reviewed articles
Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship · The Geographical Journal, 192(1), 2026 · → Read
Glimpses beyond citizenship? Challenging citizenship as a frame for the navigation of border regimes · co-authored with John Clayton · The Geographical Journal, special issue introduction, 2026
Social and Sonic Harmony Dynamics in the UK’s Migrant Voluntary and Community Sector · Cultural Geographies, under revision
On reading non-participation as refusal · Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 201(2), 2023 · → Read
Review of A Place More Void by Anna Secor and Paul Kingsbury · co-authored with J. Miller · Cultural Geographies, 2021
Commissioned reports and chapters
Safer Parks Standard · Pain, R., Ackland, S., Vaughan, C., Meziant, K., & Varna, G. · Commissioned by the Northumbria OPCC in partnership with Newcastle University, 2022
“Unleashing The Beast”: Emergent Resistance in White Charity · in S. M. Hughes (Ed.), Critical Geographies of Resistance · Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023
For a complete list of publications, see my Google Scholar or ORCID.
For academic collaboration or writing commissions, get in touch.
Kahina Meziant 