Nira Yuval-Davis

Professor Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the research centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London and the leader of WP9 on intersectional everyday bordering of the EUBorderscapes research project.

Perceptions of Jews or perceptions of antisemitism?

“I’m not neutral in this debate, as I’m an anti-Zionist diasporic Israeli Jew most of whose family have been murdered by the Nazis… and I have fought against the homogenizing and reifying effects of identity politics.”

By Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 22 May 2019

Perceptions of Jews or perceptions of antisemitism?

Changing the racialized ‘common sense’ of everyday bordering

The out-sourcing of border-guarding is not (just) going to paid expert agencies but is imposed as part of the unpaid daily citizenship duties of untrained people in Britain.

By Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

/ 17 Feb 2016

Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms, and the question of Palestine/Israel

Both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish racisms have played their part in legitimising global clashes. And the Palestine/Israel question has helped to encourage these conflations and racialisations.

By Nira Yuval-Davis and Jamie Hakim

/ 28 Sep 2015

Introducing this week’s guest feature – Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms and Palestine/Israel

Racisms against both Jews and Muslims across the globe are being stimulated by the question of Palestine/Israel in increasingly complex ways. Our guest editors this week, from the University of East London’s Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, invite you to join an open forum

By Nira Yuval-Davis and Jamie Hakim

/ 28 Sep 2015

25 years: women working against fundamentalism in the UK

In 1989 women of many faiths and none formed a collective in London to work at the interface of feminism and anti-racism, in struggles against both religious fundamentalism and the excesses of neo-liberalism. They told Deniz Kandiyoti the story of Women against Fundamentalism.

By Nira Yuval-Davis and Sukhwant Dhaliwal

/ 10 Sep 2014

Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or racism? Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms and the question of Palestine/Israel

Both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish racisms have become part of daily ‘common sense’ constructions everywhere in time of global crisis, expressing insecurity and hostility against ‘the Other’, ‘the terrorist’, ‘the usurper’. The Palestine/Israel question has helped to encourage these conflations and

By Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 24 Dec 2013

Symptoms of crisis? Religion and women’s rights in Israel

Women are being increasingly targeted as the accommodation between religious and secular Israelis crumbles, heralding a profound systemic crisis in Israeli society, Nira Yuval-Davis tells Deniz Kandiyoti

By Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 10 Sep 2012

The politics of belonging in Britain

'There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and the politics of belonging. So is it time to open up the debate and ask what it means to belong 'in' - rather than 'to' - contemporary Britain?

By Jennifer Allsopp and Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 16 Jan 2012

The dark side of democracy: autochthony and the radical right

Racialised and forced migrants are the spectre of the 'other' in the autochthonic dream of the 'pure' otherless universe which we must confront. This border-zone is our political as well as our analytical challenge, says Nira Yuval Davis

By Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 26 Jul 2011

The binary war

War is a time for absolutes: good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. The pressure to conform to these binary oppositions to absorb them not just into our

By Nira Yuval-Davis

/ 24 Oct 2001