Migration: Chinesen in Afrika
Seit vielen Generationen wandern Chinesen nach Afrika aus. Viele bleiben nur solange dort, bis ihre Arbeit getan ist, einige lassen sich länger nieder. Das Leben auf dem fernen…
Tag: migration
Round Table: Responses by Milena Belloni
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Theodore Baird
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Shahram Khosravi
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Roundtable: Responses by Rebecca Galemba
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Victoria Stone-Cadena
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Nassim Majidi
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Sarnata Reynolds
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Ilse van Liempt
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Jason Danforth
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Paola Monzini
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
A Virtual Experiment
Are smugglers parasites profiting on human desperation, or do they provide a service to those on the move? Click on the question, and you’ll see a selection of…
Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?
Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one was suffering from a…
The Deportation Conundrum – REDUX #BORDERS
Today we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a part of our thread…
Workshop: Critical Engagements to Irregular Migration Facilitation
Irregular immigration has produced political heat across the world. Dramatic photos of migrants crammed into wretched boats circulate in the media, while journalistic accounts tell stories of poor…
A View From the Train Tracks
In September 2015, the disturbing image of a drowned Syrian toddler named Aylan Kurdi, whose body had washed ashore on a beach in Turkey, triggered an international outcry…
Up the Anthropologist – Anthropology Day, Jukebox, Migration & Breakfast
Hello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is being written) does not…
KontaktkulturEN: Ausstellung an der Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg) in Bochum
Christiane Falge Ausstellungseröffnung am 19.01.2016 | Sinan Yaman, 2016 Die Ausstellung KontaktkulturEN wurde von Prof. Christiane Falge initiiert und entstand in Kooperation mit Prof. Christian…
Past Imperfect
Let’s start with some old dirt. Who were the first people to arrive in North America more than 12,000 years ago? Did these intrepid explorers originate in Siberia…
#Review: When Humans Become Migrants
The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media coverage. Indeed, statistics do…
Vicki Squire: 12 Days in Lampedusa: The potential and perils of a photo essay
This post is also part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). I visited Lampedusa from 24…
Elissa Helms: Men at the borders: Gender, victimhood, and war in Europe’s refugee crisis
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). Even for the kind of conservative…
Raia Apostolova: Economic vs. political: Violent abstractions in Europe’s refugee crisis
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). The “economic migrant” must leave. From Berlin’s widening…
New Publication: “Medicine in Context: Towards a Social and Cultural Anthropology of Medicine(s) in an Interconnected World”
Hansjörg Dilger, Bernhard Hadolt Operating room of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon | Cover photo of the edited volume „Medicine in Context“ (2010) | 2007 Hansjörg…