The Untold Story of Japan’s First People
The Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan, have fought Japanese domination for centuries. As this century unfolds, their efforts are finally paying off. Chris Willson/Alamy Stock Photo Thi…
Tag: migration
‘On paper’ and ‘having papers’: migrants navigating medical xenophobia and obstetric rights in South Africa by Tamuka Chekero
Chekero met Pauline at a local pharmacy in Giyani, a small town in the north-east of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The area is best known to…
“Anthropology in Germany”: My report on the 2017 conference of the German Anthropological Association
Despite storm Xavier complicating the journey to Freie Universität in Berlin’s south, anthropologists working in Germany and beyond came together for the biannual conference of the German Anthropologi…
Migrants sell sex in flats, or are they brothels?
Why does it matter where you sell sex? Although most photos attached to media stories show truncated women’s bodies standing in dark streets, the news often concerns indoors:…
Recovery Workers, Latinx Foodways, and Small-Business Development in New Orleans
Blog Editor’s note: This is the first installment in FoodAnthropology’s new series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details…
Latinx Foodways in North America: A Blog Series
Sarah Fouts, series editor Postdoctoral Fellow Latin American and Latino Studies Program Lehigh University From threats of “taco trucks on every corner” and immigration raids in restaurants to…
Incitement to paedophilia: It’s the zeitgeist
The headline reads Spanish brothel’s “back to school” party sparks outrage in Andalusia. El Bosque is a legal club de alterne where sex workers drink, dance and chat with customers…
Food Is About Far More Than Bodily Sustenance
In many societies around the world, food is a deeply meaningful part of social and cultural life. Shari Lewis/Associated Press Fatima,* a refugee from Somalia who is a…
Who are migrant sex workers?
You paid someone to help you leave home, travel across borders or into unknown areas of your own country. You knew you’d be selling sex but probably not…
Experimenting with Stories #Colleex
Stories are a venue for experimentation and research, they tell about, define, create, and interact with social realities. Therefore they are important to include in analysis, and in…
Joe Trapido: Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Breaking Rocks is a volume of the Dislocations series published by Berghahn Books, a series closely associated with Focaal and FocaalBlog. The immense dislocations and suffering caused by…
Flüchtlinge in China: Angst ist kein guter Gastgeber
Die Debatte über die die Situation der Flüchtlinge aus dem Nahen Osten ist auch in China angekommen. Welche Rolle China bei der Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen spielen soll, ist…
Trump’s Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Well, look, we’re going to have a border. It’s going to be a real border, and we’re going to build a wall and it’s going to be a…
Remembering & Memories: there’s an app for that…
As we’ve posted about before, the adoption of new media and technology in our lives has an impact on our social lives in many interesting ways. In many…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
The Refugee in Anthropological Perspective
Over the past decade, we have witnessed new and ongoing crises around the world that have forced many people to uproot their lives in order to seek refuge…
For African Asylum-Seekers, a Treacherous Journey Is Only the Beginning
Sprawling, makeshift camps in the mountains of northern Morocco are home to large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans who await their chance to cross into Spain. Isabella Alexander Africans…
Die Ärzteschaft türkischer Herkunft und die „Entdeckung des türkischen Patienten“ – zur Ethnisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung in (West-)Deutschland
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Lisa Peppler Arztkoffer mit Utensilien, um 1980; Wörterbuch Deutsch-Türkisch, 1976. Objekte in Privatbesitz, Foto: Lisa Peppler. Im gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Disku…
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls? #MMTW
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. For this month’s exhibition…
Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
I was interviewed in an old pub in Stoke Newington next to a photo-plaque memorialising Writers and Reformers.* I suppose it was by chance, but maybe not. Campaigners…
Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
I was interviewed in an old pub in Stoke Newington next to a photo-plaque memorialising Writers and Reformers.* I suppose it was by chance, but maybe not. Campaigners…
Dwelling Among Walls: An Artist prepares for #MMTW Berlin
One may recall a house with nostalgia, but the feelings of joy or melancholy with it have much to do with the memories of the people enclosed within…
When Anthropologists Act as Artifacts: A conversation between an Ancient Hairpin (Alec Balasescu) and a Gold Horse (Olga Sezneva) #MMTW
This post is the third installment of our thread on the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW), a project that explores migration and mobility by developing artwork, exhibitions, performances…