Thomas Nail
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Between Deleuze and Foucault (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). His work has appeared in Angelaki, Theory & Event, Philosophy Today, Parrhesia, SubStance, Deleuze Studies, Foucault Studies, and elsewhere. His publications can be downloaded at http://du.academia.edu/thomasnail
In this essay, Thomas Nail explores the history of sanctuary cities, and proposes the notion of migrant cosmpolitanism as a means of achieving the right to the city.