Caring Across Distance—One Call at a Time
An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and their families in India. ✽ SOON AFTER I…
An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and their families in India. ✽ SOON AFTER I…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
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…
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […] The post Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japan…
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González…
Diplomatic pressures on countries in West Africa to cooperate on migration-related issues has been high, and growing, in recent years. Numerous policy initiatives underscore this, going back to…
To bring some post/decolonial history to a walking-tour literary festival, I’m offering Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The novel’s protagonist is Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who comes to …
Die Wahl ist vorbei, aber die Gefahr bleibt: Migration als Themensetzung der AfD hat den Diskurs diktiert. Der Historiker Massimo Perinelli analysiert die Bundestagswahl, räumt mit den diskriminierend…
Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […] The post Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope…
International migration is a controversial political and policy agenda, leading to the adoption of different policy measures in both sending and receiving countries. This blog takes the case…
In this interview, Anna Gopsill asks Oliver Bakewell and Kiya Gezahegne about their research on Ethiopia.
Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. ✽ When I came to…
Zum Initialbeitrag von Sina Arnold und Juliana Karakayali Kommentar von Marina Chernivsky und Friederike Lorenz-Sinai In der Forschung zu aktuellem Antisemitismus überwiegen historische, sozialpsychol…
This blog post considers the extent to which the EU and other industrialised countries can evade responsibility for the displacement of populations most affected by climate change by…
Senegal is a compelling case when examining the influence of European externalization initiatives on African partner countries. For nearly two decades, the European Union and individual member states—…
In 2011, while conducting fieldwork for my master’s thesis in the South Wollo area of Ethiopia’s Amhara region, I came across a striking paradox that has continued to…
Abstract The escalation of war in Ukraine in 2022 triggered a global show of solidarity with Ukrainians escaping the country. […] The post Narrative Abandonment. Suffering and the…
El-Gedaref: A Vital Agricultural Hub Shaped by Migration Located in eastern Sudan, El-Gedaref State is an agricultural powerhouse serves as a critical crossroads for migration, particularly during regi…
New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally…
Zum Initialbeitrag von Sina Arnold und Juliana Karakayali Kommentar von Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz und Ina Schaum „Alltagserfahrungen, die Juden:Jüdinnen mit gegenwärtigem Antisemitismus machen, sind allerd…
Das Vergessen und die Nichtanerkennung von rassistischer Gewalt prägen migrantisches Leben in Deutschland bis heute. Umso wichtiger ist das Potenzial künstlerischer Praxis als alternativer Erinnerungs…
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about […] The post Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind,…
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […] The post Between Borders and Ballots appeared…
Since 2021, along with the British and Australian governments, the Canadian government has relaxed immigration policy for Hong Kong immigrants. This policy offers an unconventional path with lowered…