Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen is a Lecturer with the Council on African Studies and Council on Middle East Studies.  Her work focuses on the relationship between borders, race, and political economy between Africa and Europe. Leslie received her PhD in geography from Clark University in 2020. Her first book project, entitled Bordering Blackness: The Production of Race in the Morocco-EU Immigration Regime, draws on 11 months of ethnographic research among West and Central African migrants moving through or contained within Morocco, and was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship. Her next project, tentatively titled Afrophobia in the African City: Migration, Violence, and the Political Economy of Difference, examines how urban space across the continent is being reshaped materially and socially as a result of intensifying migration control regimes, and how racial and ethnic difference is used to signify the legitimacy of particular claims to citizenship, mobility, and the right to the city. 

 

At Yale she has offered courses entitled “Race, Space, and Power: Mapping the Global Color Line” (ANTH 238/AFST 235) and “Africa in the World” (ANTH 160/AFST 106). She is also a fellow at Ezra Stiles College.

 

Gross-Wyrtzen, L. 2020. “Contained and abandoned in the ‘humane’ border: Migrant immobility and survival in Moroccan urban space.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38(5): 887-904. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820922243