The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s social network unfolds throughout…
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s social network unfolds throughout…
Replik von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], Februar 2024 In unserem Initialbeitrag haben wir versucht, die Anforderungen an mehrsprach…
Israel’s war on Gaza that erupted in 2023 continues a long history of systemic displacement of Palestinians. Over 2 million Palestinian refugees currently live in Jordan in indefinite…
zu den aktuellen Gesetzgebungsvorhaben Kernaufgabe einer jeden Migrationspolitik muss es sein, die Migrationsgesellschaft zu gestalten – nicht zu verhindern. Die von der Bundesregierung aktuell forcie…
Stellungnahme und Forderungen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus der Migrations-, Rassismus-, Antisemitismus-, Rechtsextremismus- und Diskriminierungsforschung1 1. Hintergrund Mit Entsetzen haben wir zur K…
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The first came by land: a parade…
From Navvyman by Dick Sullivan via www.victorianweb.org What do you think about when you hear the name Primrose Hill? Good pubs, celebrity-residents, the view over London? For me…
Episode 8 (dts. & engl.): Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives mit Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Fenja Akinde-Hummel, Thao Ho und Yumin Li http…
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen. They condemned this latest…
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria. For the next…
Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von 1951 steht heute als vermeintliches Relikt unter Beschuss. Oft vergessen wird dabei, dass sie als Lehre aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs entstand, als…
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on everyday life in what…
Der Wahlsieg von Geert Wilders in den Niederlanden ist nur die neueste Episode einer rechtsextremen Erfolgsserie in Europa – und er zeigt, dass daran nicht zuletzt die Konkurrenz…
Forced migration affects a whole range of academics and their research worldwide. Sociologist Olena Strelnyk and cultural scientist Mariya Shcherbyna focus on their own displacement from Ukraine cause…
– 20. Oktober 2023 Nach einem letzten Verbändegespräch am 18. Oktober geht der Gesetzesentwurf für ein Sächsisches Integrations- und Teilhabegesetz (SITG) nun zur Endabstimmung in den Sächsische…
In The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, Kristin Surak investigates how selling citizenship to the uber-rich has transformed from an anomalous activity offered by a handful of microst…
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS,…
Im vergangenen Juni wurde der 17jährige Nahel in einer Pariser Banlieue von einem Polizisten erschossen. Seit den 1970er Jahren rufen Polizeigewalt und der sie ermöglichende struktureller Rassismus im…
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each…
New DNA analysis has revealed surprising diversity among remains from burial sites in Peru. A genetic anthropologist explains what this suggests about the 15th century Inca palace. This…
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
As you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities and Migration. Several compelling new books remain available…
A team of researchers explains how the discovery of a human skull and jawbone helps push back the timing of modern humans’ migration into Southeast Asia. This article…
For decades, soldiers at the border between Attari, India, and Wagah, Pakistan, have staged an elaborate ceremony for onlookers. An anthropologist reflects on the ceremony as a legacy…