I study how immigrants and refugees employ narrative and rhetorical strategies to make claims on citizenship rights and human rights, and the way the genre of the novel mediates these claims. I am also interested in twentieth- and twenty-first century literary representations of diaspora, refugees, and postwar migration. My publications range from studies on the Windrush Generation in Britain to the displacement of Jewish refugees during World War II to the rise of Afropolitan communities in the twenty-first century.