Dr. Aino Korvensyrjä is an anthropologist and sociologist whose research focuses on borders and race, deportation, asylum, policing, punishment, solidarity, and migration justice movements. Her dissertation examined struggles against deportation after 2015 by people who migrated to Germany from West Africa and diaspora activists’ critiques of German immigration enforcement and European borders. In 2023, she researched institutional racism in German criminal courts in a joint project by Justice Collective and the Institute of Criminology, University of Cologne. Previously, she was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Halle, Department of Law & Anthropology and at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN). Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Identities, Geoforum, movements, Citizenship Studies, Routledge and Bristol University Press. She is active in groups and networks organizing against deportation, externalized borders and racist police violence, and a member of the kritnet (Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies).