Future Returns: Labor and Revolution Between Sudan and Lebanon

I am currently writing a book based on six years of multi-sited ethnographic and oral historical research with intergenerational migrant communities in Lebanon and with their families, who are subsistence farmers in Sudan. It tells a transregional story about migrants’ political organizing against racial capitalism and national state repression in Lebanon since the 1960s, culminating in Sudan’s December 2018 revolution, where migrants returned to. The project examines how the political and economic crises in both countries affected migrants’ livelihood and intimate relations, and changed the migration economy, preceding the April 2023 war in Sudan from which millions have now been displaced.