anthro in the news 4/10/17
Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile during a flight test Credit: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons Trump strike on Syria Two newspaper reports on Trump’s April 6 missile attack on…
Dream Factories in the Time of War
On Sunday, February 26, 2017, the Arab world held elections—anyone who had access to a cell phone and wanted to pay the extra fee to send an SMS…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
CFP: Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets: Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains
(English below, Spanish here, Portuguese here) Colloque international Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets. Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains 23 et 24 Novembre 2017 A l’Institut des…
Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung auf Twitter: @NW_FlueFor
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HSR II: Consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies
In the first of two questions of the second roundtable, human smuggling experts share their views on the (un)intended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies. We assembled a range…
Roundtable II: Responses by Luigi Achilli
What are the unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? From the perspective of media, border authorities, and public opinion, human smuggling is perceived as an exploita…
Roundtable II: Responses by Alexandra Ricard-Guay
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Alexandra Ricard-Guay is a Research Associate at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre…
Roundtable II: Responses by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Migrant smugglers exist because there is demand for people to move irregularly or illegally across border…
Roundtable II: Responses by Robert Barsky
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Although aimed at reducing the suffering and risk incurred by migrants, forced and otherwise, most anti-s…
The human smugglers roundtable is back!
While irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. Depictions of irregular migrants from war-torn and economically…
Roundtable II: Responses by Luca Rainieri
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Within fragile countries of the European neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood, anti-smuggling and ant…
Roundtable II: Responses by David Danelo
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Let’s consider two continents. At the beginning of 2015, Europe prided itself on the freedom of movement …
Roundtable II: Responses by Jared P. Van Ramshorst
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies are intended to disrupt and deter cross-border smuggling and…
Roundtable II: Responses by Caitlin Blanchfield & Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies have far reaching impacts in borderlands communities. For th…
Roundtable II: Responses by Wendy Vogt
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? It is widely estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked in Mexico each year. Since 200…
Pierre Cachia 1921-2017
Pierre Cachia 1921-2017 Pierre Cachia slipped away peacefully on 1st April, a few days shy of his 96 th birthday, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. With the…
Life Talks: A conversation on finding and working on your purpose
INTERVIEW : DAVID MILLAN Last year I read an interview to David Millan, a Colombian business graduate, who quit his job at Novo Nordisk to explore the…
AAA CFP: Famines and Food Crises in Africa
For the upcoming 2017 AAA meetings in Washington DC. Contact the organizers listed below if you are interested in participating. Famines and Food Crises in Africa: Causes, Consequences…
AAA CFP: Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food
We are looking for 1 more paper for the following session. Please send abstracts to Micah M. Trapp, mmtrapp@memphis.edu, by Tuesday Apr. 11th. Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food…
Haptischer Geheim-Codex: Über sowjetische Straflager-Tätowierungen und ihre Symbolik
Tätowierungen zählen wohl zu einer der ältesten Verzierungen des menschlichen Körpers. So trug schon die Gletscher-Mumie „Ötzi“ vor in etwa 5000 Jahren mit Nadeln und Einstichen unter die…