History from Below in Camden Walks
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…
Tag: migration
#nachgefragt: Das Podcastformat des Genderblogs
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…
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
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…
The Kobane Generation
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…
Aus Europa, nach Europa. Das internationale Flüchtlingsrecht und sein koloniales Erbe
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…
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
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…
Die Erfolge der Rechten – und die Fehler der anderen
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…
Forcibly displaced Ukrainian women scholars: Gendered challenges of research, care, and building a new identity
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…
Stellungnahme zum Sächsischen Integrations- und Teilhabegesetzes (SITG): Die Grundlagen für mehr Teilhabe durch mehr Teilhabe schaffen
– 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…
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires – review
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…
Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October
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,…
„Wir weigern uns zu gehorchen.“ Der lange Kampf gegen rassistische Gewalt in Frankreich
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…
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
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…
Decoding Diversity and Power at Machu Picchu
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…
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality – review
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,…
Second call for reviewers for our Mobilities and Migration series!
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…
Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in Asia
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…
Imagining Other Worlds at the India-Pakistan Border
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…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About People
Archaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and used. What, then, can ceramics reveal about past…
Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
My title is a paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher’s dissing of Hackney, but prejudice against Essex is knee-jerk amongst loads of middle class folks who didn’t like her. Much…
MDI-Expertise: Repräsentation von Menschen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte in deutschen Parlamenten
Von den Kollegen Andreas Wüst und Henning Bergmann Die komplette Expertise finden Sie hier. Es wurden Daten zur parlamentarischen Repräsentation in allen deutschen Landesparlamenten für den Zeitraum 2…
Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova
In Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova, Eleanor Knott presents a comparative study of how people living in Crimea and Moldova identified with Russia and Romania, respectivel…
A New Take on an Old Fossil Hints at Ancient Migrations
Two anthropologists explain how an enigmatic human fossil jawbone—and its 3D-printed reconstruction—may evidence an early Homo sapiens presence in Europe and shed new light on evolutionary diversity a…
Kommentar zur Reform des gemeinsamen europäisches Asylsystem und zur humanitären Schiffskatastrophe von Pylos
Zwischen falschen Reformen und staatlichen Verbrechen des Friedens von Prof. Dr. Vassilis S. Tsianos Zuerst publiziert in: 40. Newsletter „Rassismuskritische Migrationspädagogik“, Juli 2023. Die Disku…