Pressemitteilung vom 7. Juni 2019 Gesetzesänderungen: Migrationspolitik sollte Krisenmodus verlassen Der Rat für Migration (RfM) – ein Zusammenschluss von über 150 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaf…
You have probably heard the adagio that “man bites dog”, and not “dog bites man”, makes for a good piece of news: unusual, exceptional, events are better stories…
You have probably heard the adagio that “man bites dog”, and not “dog bites man”, makes for a good piece of news: unusual, exceptional, events are better stories…
Set in the beautiful, sprawling Field of Gacko in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, Safet HadžiMuhamedović’s book Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn Books,…
Set in the beautiful, sprawling Field of Gacko in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, Safet HadžiMuhamedović’s book Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn Books,…
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> As an inaugural post for the Discuss White Privilege section, this transcribes an early June 2019 interaction mostly about…
Eines ist vollkommen klar: unsere Welt braucht Veränderung. Und auch dies ist klar: wir schaffen es nur gemeinsam. Weltweit schließen sich Menschen zu gemeinschaftlichen Experimentierfeldern zusammen …
It was my second time attending the neighborhood association meeting in the community where I was doing fieldwork. The association president had invited me, saying he thought it…
… den neuen Vorstand des Soziologiemagazins! Mitte Mai haben wir uns in Frankfurt zu unserer alljährlichen Mitgliederversammlung getroffen und die Köpfe zusammengesteckt. Neben vielen neuen Ideen für …
Shortly after giving birth to her son, Jessica[1] began to experience a health problem that she describes simply as “pain everywhere.” About one month after we initially met…
For Raphael Lemkin, who invented the term, genocide was the effort to destroy a group as a group. #MMIWG
In Young Working-Class Men in Transition, Steven Roberts draws on a seven-year longitudinal study of young working-class men in the south-east of England to counter dominant narratives surrounding wor…
People’s decisions to migrate in search of work are often discussed in terms of economic necessity, but these decisions are also shaped by a host of historical and…
People’s decisions to migrate in search of work are often discussed in terms of economic necessity, but these decisions are also shaped by a host of historical and…
Colleagues from Oulu also put together an interesting programme for their doctoral course, with a focus on studying ‘dark heritage’, i.e. civil wars, atrocities. Here is their programme…
June will be a busy month for me with three migration-related events scheduled in Europe where I will discuss my recent safe migration research. First, I’ll present two…
I wrote a presentation of the research behind the paper in this blog post.
Are you a social scientist, academic or student interested in working in non-academic settings? Are you curious about what kind … More
Die venezolanische Flüchtlingskrise ist die bedeutendste Zwangsmigration in der jüngeren Geschichte Lateinamerikas. Sie stellt Institutionen und Regierungen der Region vor ernste Herausforderungen. Ob…
In Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain, Robert Verkaik explores the role that public schooling plays in reproducing inequality in Britain, showing how public schools enable wealthy…
How can we harness the knowledge of the maker for the 21st century? The knowledge created through making, sometimes called ‘embodied’ or ‘tacit’, is fundamental to life and…
“Si los cuentos representan una radiografÃa de nuestra cultura, entonces, el tratamiento que en ellos se hace de la figura femenina contiene grandes dosis de realidad.” Sharif Kanaana,…
Journalist Scott Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world. Wallace is a writer and…
In this multi-layered ethnography that centers truck drivers, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) describes both…