Through its vast breadth of work, Esferas 12 helps us take a closer look at migration and asylum. With works ranging from essays, photographs, and poems to A-file analyses and opinion pieces, we take the very primal experience of migration and consider its place within our society. We find stories of hope preceded by memories of pain, political stagnation amidst growing social consciousness, and resilience for movement forward despite the trauma of lost identities. All of the works demonstrate how the experience of migration is individually unique and collectively common. It is said that the body remembers experiences, and through this issue we find ourselves revisiting the memories of displaced yet reoriented bodies throughout our simultaneously interconnected and fractured world.This multidisciplinary and multilingual exploration of migration and asylum, compiled in collaboration with the Asylum H-Lab at NYU's Center for the Humanities, works to establish an interconnected perspective on the opportunities and tensions created when people move across territories divided by state-enforced borders. The H-Lab focuses on "information/evidence/data regarding asylum seekers and the asylum process in the United States." The combination of the H-Lab's analytical dossier with other creative and individual approaches to the theme, including students' relationship with their own migratory history, allows Esferas 12 to elaborate on the layered influences of the politics of enforcement, punishment, access and (self-)identification, as well as the ethical responsibilities in a field which includes and represents such a vulnerable population.It is through this establishment of cross-cultural and multidisciplinary languages and connections that Esferas 12 presents varieties of justice in the area of migration. This work must be done by meeting the needs of migrants and support organizations involved in all aspects of the migration system and by drawing attention to the global asyl