Tagung des Rat für Migration „Sprache • Macht • Bildung“
Internationale Konferenz in Berlin Der Rat für Migration lädt am 7. und 8. November 2019 zur Jahrestagung Sprache · Macht · Bildung ein. Sprache und Bildung spielen im…
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Remembering the Woman Who Was My Second Mother in Cuba
Caro in the terrace of her house in Havana, 2001. Ruth Behar When my cellphone rang on the morning of December 12, 2018, and I saw the call…
What Migrants Leave Behind
A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time. Gabriella Soto “Oh my God. Did you see this backpack?” a…
„Integration“ und (Des)Integration
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann ge…
Teilhabe geflüchteter Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt
Artikel zu Ausgangslagen, Hürden und Handlungsstrategien Autorin: Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad Der Beitrag von Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad gibt auf der Basis von Sekundäranalysen vorhandener Lit…
Review: Authentic Italian
Di Maio, Dina M. Authentic Italian. The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People. ISBN#13:978-0-9996255-0-7 Francesca Gobbo University of Turin With her book Authentic Italian (2018),…
Picturing Change, Seeing Continuity: Hmong Story Cloths
It is a new year and a new semester at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and that means new exhibitions! There are new exhibitions still to open…
#EVENTS: Temporalities, global movement and more
New year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time – so don’t forget to send a proposal for…
Bystander: On a migration experience
By Peter Versteeg A waiting room with benches and very bright light from a fluorescent tube. Clothes and shoes lying all around. There’s sand on the floor. I…
Being Afghan in America: In the Field With Morwari Zafar
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS How does an immigrant become an “American”? How does any newcomer join any group? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez shares the story of Morwari Zafar, an…
Migrant sex worker: a term that has arrived
I wouldn’t have been surprised if the term migrant sex worker had died out except amongst rights-activists, given the hegemony enjoyed by reductionist trafficking narratives. When I was…
Tagungsbericht: 5. Jahrestagung der Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Die Kommission für Migrations- und Integrationsforschung (KMI), das Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (ISR), die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OEAW) und der Forschungsbereich „M…
Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer
Tijuana is a city in the north of the state of Baja California in Mexico, close to the San Isidro Land Port of Entry, where wikipedia says 20,000…
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 2)
The second part of this interview with Nicholas De Genova moves into an analysis of the so-called refugee crisis since 2015 and possibilities for militant academic research that…
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 1)
In Turkey, especially after the Syrians’ arrival following 2011, the field of migration studies has more or less confined itself to mainstream discussions such as integration, social cohesion,…
Five Things You Should Know About the “Migrant Caravan”
We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, many of whom are fleeing for their lives. And we want to set the record straight. We conduct research…
The Spinners of Boyanese Bhavacakra
by Danang Nizar Long outside the radar of anthropology, there was an ethnic group in a secluded island called Bawean, located in the middle of Java Sea, Indonesia,…
A Demagogue’s Words Matter
Trump’s immigration metaphors set a divisive tone from the top. Trump wields demagogic rhetoric like a marketing tool, ramping up prejudicial appeals in the closing days of the…
Why Are So Many Guatemalans Migrating to the U.S.?
On May 23, a bystander filmed 20-year-old Claudia Patricia Gómez González after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot her in the head. The young woman had recently crossed…
Prof. Dr. Thomas Faist über Trends und Herausforderungen der Migrationssoziologie
In unserem Gespräch auf dem 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie zum Thema Komplexe Dynamiken Globaler und Lokaler Entwicklungen sprach unser Redakteur Andreas Schulz mit Thomas Fais…
Healing Landscapes in Berlin: Seven Film Portraits of Healers in the City
Hide Press Release (6 Less Words) Hansjörg Dilger, Kristian Petersen, Werkstatt Ethnologie Viviana Ponce de León. Photo credits: Miriam Tamayo. The anthropological film project “Healing Landscapes in B…
Art is a Movement – This Anthro Life
“Money cannot be the reason why you make art. Artwork can be sold and should be sold because artists need to make a living. But they should not,…
Symposium: Urbane Transformation und Migration
15. Oktober 2018 in Erkner Wie verändern sich Städte durch Migration? Wie gehen Städte mit den Herausforderungen um, die sich durch Migration stellen und wie wird Migration lokal…