What Does Baseball’s Bilingualism Reveal?
Dominican-born Yordano Ventura, Kansas City Royals’ starting pitcher, holds up a Dominican flag following the team’s World Series victory in 2015. (Ventura died tragically in 2017.) Shane Key…
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A Place Apart by Benjamin Hegarty
On a crisp autumn day in April in Melbourne, my phone has several missed calls from an Indonesian friend. With a heavy heart, I call back to see…
Open Letter to Senator Jack Reed by Argenis Hurtado Moreno
Argenis Hurtado MorenoProvidence, RI 02912June 22, 2020 Jack ReedSenator of Rhode Island728 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Reed, Thursday was an important and n…
Managing Refugee Mobilities: Global Flows of Migration Deterrence Technologies
In 2000, a United Nations Resolution designated June 20th World Refugee Day. In the week leading up to this day, countries throughout the world pay homage to the…
Policy Paper: Effektive und faire Flüchtlingspolitik ohne Vorprüfung und Hotspots
Empfehlungen für die GEAS-Reform unter deutscher EU-Ratspräsidentschaft Am 1. Juli 2020 wird Deutschland für sechs Monate die Präsidentschaft des Europäischen Rats übernehmen. In dieser Zeit will die …
Migration – Germany’s Past And Present. Thoughts And Figures
Beitrag in der Publikation “European Spatial Research And Policy” Von: Prof. Dr. Wendelin Strubelt und Dr. Markus Eltges In this article, the history of emigration from Germany and…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Wer waren die N***** Europas? Der 50. Jahrestag der «Schwarzenbach-Initiative gegen Überfremdung» in der Schweiz und die antirassistische Protestbewegung in den USA
Während in den USA die Städte brennen und Rassismus das Land spaltet, müht sich die Schweiz mit der Bewertung des 50. Jahrestags der Abstimmung zur «Schwarzenbach-Initiative gegen Überfremdung»…
Is the Pandemic a Chance to Challenge Global Inequality?
Migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan crowd a detention center in Greece in 2016. Milos Bicanski “Gulzar, get up! Gulzar, get up!” Saba Khan remembers shouting. Then she turned…
Sammelband „Migration, Religion, Gender und Bildung“
Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Verständnis von Intersektionalität Im Zentrum dieses Bandes stehen nationale und internationale Querschnittsperspektiven von Gender, Flucht und Migration im Zusammenhang …
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
“We Cannot Afford to Take Any Risks”: Refugees in Indonesia under Self-Isolation amidst COVID-19 Pandemic (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad Image 1: Refugees in Medan making facemasks for an initiative led by a local non-profit organization that covers…
Coronavirus Is Killing the Hope of Asylum
As orders to “stay at home” swept across the globe in March and April, some questioned what those mandates meant for people without a place to call home,…
Platypus Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
In celebration and recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, take a look back at some of our favorite past posts from and about the region.…
Suspension, Risk, Suspicion: Field dispatches from Pakistan under COVID-19
اردو میں پڑھنے کے لیے یہاں Click کریں Editor’s note: This post is the third in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read…
RfM-Jahrestagung: Kritik rassistischer Praktiken. Wissenschaftliche und politische Perspektiven
Internationale Konferenz in Berlin Der Rat für Migration lädt am 12. und 13. November 2020 zur Jahrestagung „Kritik rassistischer Praktiken. Wissenschaftliche und politische Perspektiven“ ein. Es hat …
Why do refugee children continue to take perilous journeys to reach the UK?
Our government just removed the only legislation providing an alternative. by Isabel Soloaga In January, I revisited the refugee camps in Northern France, where I have volunteered since…
The Long View of Climate Change and Human Health
The deterministic view that climate change invariably causes migration, competition, violence, and collapse is overly simplistic. Bioarchaeology shows us that human responses are far more complex and …
Die „Völkerwanderung“ kennt keine Völker
Die Bilder aus der Nibelungensage, mit Dietrich von Bern, dem grimmigen Hagen und dem tückischen Hunnenkönig Etzel prägten über Jahrhunderte das Bild der „Völkerwanderung“. Heute scheinen sie sich…
Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
Archaeologists dig at a site called Al Wusta in Saudi Arabia. Klint Janulis Please note that this article includes images of human remains. The Nefud Desert is a…
Stellungnahme: Sars-CoV-2 und die (un)gleiche Vulnerabilität von Menschen
Stellungnahme von Yasemin Karakaşoğlu und Paul Mecheril, Vorsitzende des Rats für Migration Wir befinden uns in einer Situation, die menschheitsgeschichtlich, zumindest noch, unvergleichlich ist, wei…
“Stay the fuck at home” by Des Fitzgerald
On April 5th, NHS Million, an unofficial campaign for people who “love and cherish” the UK’s National Health Service, tweeted a video of a distressed nurse recording a message in…
How are Foreign Domestic Workers Implicated in the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong?
by Charlotte Brill ‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of tear gas on her day off. This tear…
Digital Migration
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Patricia G. Lange, an anthropologist and associate professor of Critical Studies (undergraduate program) and Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at Cal…