The Anthropologist’s Summer (Non?)Travel Toolkit
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
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What really worries the world? Q&A with Danny Dorling on The Next Crisis
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
The Manufacturing of Job Displacement
Laura López-Sanders‘ The Manufacturing of Job Displacement is an ethnographic study examining how racial capitalism shapes labour inequality in a company based in South Carolina, US. Though lim…
Migrant Media
The power of documentary to inspire action and agitate for radical change has developed alongside social struggles and mass movements for over a century. This article outlines the…
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going – review
In A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, Michael Muthukrishna contends that the core issue affecting Western societies is increasing energy…
Book Review | Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Donghyun Danny Choi et al.
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor Krishnendu Ray (NYU). We discuss Professor Ray’s initial…
Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.
By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s immigration tactics, it is important to ask: who…
An Open Letter from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with an Introductory Text on the Situation of African Students in Germany by Ziga Podgornik Jakil)
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil, in Collaboration with African Students from Ukraine (Figure 1: Aid for refugees at Berlin main station. Author: Leonhard Lenz.…
A Strange Past Returns Strangely
The last time I heard anyone utter the name, Przemysl, I must have been ten or eleven years old. In his thickly Yiddishized English, my maternal grandfather must…
Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
More Persistent Inequality: Farmworkers and Your Food
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Flucht erzählen. Jugendliteratur auf schwierigem Terrain
Seit das Thema der Flucht Eingang in die öffentliche Debatte gefunden hat, setzt sich auch die Jugendliteratur damit auseinander. Sie baut Brücken zwischen altbewährten Genres, zwischen Kulturen und…
“A new phase in the old struggle”: Trumpism and the Fight for Latinx Citizenship
My father tells a story about growing up in the hill country of Texas in the forties and fifties. The train station downtown had a drinking…
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESCultural Anthropology »General Anthropolog…
Wellen, Ströme, Fluten. Zur politischen Geschichte aquatischer Metaphern
Neben den viel diskutierten „Coronawellen“ ist auch die Versinnbildlichung von Migrant:innen, und besonders Geflüchteten, als Welle oder Flut stets in den Medien präsent. Wie kommt es, dass die…
African Immigrant Care Workers & COVID in the US: Their Fears, Protections, and Recalibrations by Cati Coe
The US healthcare system depends on the labor of immigrant healthcare professionals, a fact mainly unrecognized and unreported during the pandemic. Twenty-eight percent of physicians are foreign-born…
Immigrant Women’s Care Work in a Global Pandemic
The shuttering of the global economy and the devastating health ramifications of COVID-19 have left undocumented immigrant women in the United States struggling to provide emotional and economic care…
DNA Testing of Immigrants Is Unethical
The collection of genetic biodata for the reunification of families must safeguard individuals’ agency, provide meaningful informed consent, and protect privacy. DNA testing has been used for nearly…
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
The Equitable Transformation of Communities: A Conversation with John Arroyo
The future of working with newcomer immigrant populations and serving them also means understanding the needs of extant populations: being…
Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901
Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ and ‘outsider.’ While the work of p…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alanna Warner-Smith Examines Labor and Inequality in Nineteenth-Century New York City
During the nineteenth century, ideas about aging were changing. These ideas placed less of an emphasis on tradition and elders and focused…