Isotopes in fossil teeth suggest ancient animals traveled less than once thought—making researchers rethink past human societies and future conservation. ✽ Hundreds of hooves thunder, announcing the h…
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. […] The post British Culture After Empire: Race,…
Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is […] The post Capitalist Colonial: Thai Mig…
A Venezuelan anthropologist reflects on distrust he felt from residents of informal settlements in Santiago, Chile—and how his experiences track global trends of fearing outsiders. ✽ I knocked…
In a personal essay, an anthropologist reflects on her family’s dual Syrian and French heritage. ✽ Throughout my early childhood, I did not hear my mother’s accent. Other…
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
In many parts of Africa, investments and migration from China have sparked tensions with local residents—but some Chinese migrants are finding a welcoming community in Mandarin-speaking Zambian Witnes…
From the mid-2000s, Senegal has had an anti-trafficking law to prosecute emigration attempts and activities that relate to facilitating passage out of the country. Implemented following Senegal’…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-record/paper Jennifer Chacon: You note in the book that when immigrant residents want to avail themselves of various forms of relief from the threat of de…
An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. ✽ BEFORE I FORMALLY BECAME an anthropologist, my mom and I lived…
An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. ✽ WITHIN A FEW HOURS…
On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was […] The post On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian…
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…