Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM)

Book Talk with author Dr. Gala Rexer in conversation
with author and journalist Hanno Hauenstein
moderated by Dr. Tunay Altay
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October 6, 2026, 18:00–20:00
Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Straße 40/41
Raum 507
 
Demographic Anxieties examines how the Israeli settler-
colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s
reproductive freedom. Grounded in a Black feminist
reproductive justice framework, this work foregrounds the
sexual politics of settler colonialism by demonstrating how
Israeli policies profoundly impact Palestinian women’s
reproductive rights, health, and decision-making. Based on
in-depth interviews and more than two years of
ethnographic research with Israeli medical staff and
Palestinian women undergoing fertility treatment, the book
takes Israeli hospitals, fertility departments, maternity
wards, and infrastructures of care as sites of inquiry into
the governance of Palestinians’ lives.


 
More about the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/demographic-anxieties/paper



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