Minimum wage rises in Vermont and New Hampshire, Brewer may end Arizona’s run of female Governors, and why is Ohio important? US state blog round up for round up for 8 – 14 March

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs

A new strategy in eastern Europe, the Medicaid gap has a body count, and no, Elizabeth Warren is not running for President – US national blog round up for 19 – 25 April

USApp Managing Editor, Chris Gilson, and Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, look at the best in political blogging from the Beltway. Our round-up of state blogs will follow on Saturday afternoon

Fishermen and Little Fish: Migration and Hospitality in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa’

In this article, we argue that Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tale ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa,’ in Foreign Soil (2014), is a provocative representation of migration in contemporary Australia. At a time in which the world is facing its largest migration since the Second World War and in which Australian border policy is making headlines around the world, Clarke’s tale is a powerful intervention in discourses of contemporary Australian identity and nationhood. We demonstrate that the tale is a subtle manipulation of what McCullough terms the ‘refugee narrative structure’ since it carefully undercuts the myth of a nation as a coherent narrative across time and space. By juxtaposing the tales of an illegal migrant and a volunteer case worker, and by setting the tale largely in a functioning detention centre, Clarke gives voice to the voiceless and draws parallels between individuals on different sides of the insider/outsider binary. The encounter that finally takes place between them implicates the reader very directly in discourses of contemporary migration and border policy

Obama the fundraiser in chief, the ‘Let me Google that for you Act’, and is the GOP softening on gay marriage? – US national blog round up for 12 – 18 April

USApp Managing Editor, Chris Gilson, and Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen look at the best in political blogging from the Beltway. Our round-up of state blogs will follow on Saturday afternoon

Job creation in Wisconsin, McConnell is reminded to mind the gap, and does Silicon Valley hold the key to America’s future? – US state blog round up for 30 November – 6 December

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson, look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly round up of national blogs

Christie embroiled in ‘Bridgegate’, rail troubles in California and the end of the five day work week in Wisconsin? – US state blog round up for 3 – 10 January

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs

Christie’s bridge troubles, unemployment benefits under threat, and has Obamacare hurt the U.S. more than Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists combined? – US state blog round up for 14 – 20 December

USApp Managing Editor, Chris Gilson, and Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs

The NYPD’s Twitter campaign backfires, Missouri Governor Nixon may face impeachment, and will the Bible become the state book of Louisiana? – US state blog round up for 19 – 25 April

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson, look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs

Snow problems for de Blasio in New York, gun carry laws on states’ agenda, and Wisconsin’s Walker under fire – US state blog round up for round up for 15 – 21 February

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs

Christie cleared for now, Georgia’s ‘guns everywhere’ bill, and what is wrong with California’s Democrats? US state blog round up for 22 – 28 March

USApp Assistant Editor, Natalie Allen, and Managing Editor, Chris Gilson look at the week in U.S. state blogging. Click here for our weekly roundup of national blogs