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…
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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…
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Documentary film. 2015. Produced and researched by: Katarzyna Grabska, Nicoletta Del Franco, and Marina de Regt Directed…
Curation of Migration
Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) reunites artists, academics and performers that share the experience of serial migration. The flexible format of the workshop exhibits work or specific perform…
Children on the Border: Could Migration be the Problem, Not the Solution?
Youth gang recruits in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America are at risk at home, during migration, and even once they reach the U.S. Photo courtesy of USAID.…
Why popular anthropology?
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The anthropological commitment to this immense plurality…
„We Are Only Helping!“ Volunteering and Social Media in Germany’s New „Welcome Culture“
Astrid Bochow Collection point at the Johanniter’s, Rosdorf | Astrid Bochow „What is new about the current refugee crisis in Germany?“ asked Janina Kehr in this blog on 19…
Rachel Smith: The “hidden abodes” of temporary migration programs
Organizations such as the World Bank have repeated what has been called the “migration development mantra.” In this, remittances appear as a panacea—or “wonder drug” (Green 2015)—for economic…
Crisis and Continuity: A Critical Look at the “European Refugee Crisis”
Writing ethnography in sites and times of “crisis” is a challenge that more and more anthropologists are dealing with, as this historical moment is punctuated with multiple crisis…
Trafficking: The globalisation of weak thinking and dumb language
What isn’t on this list of signs of human trafficking? Has there ever been a vaguer term than abuse of vulnerability? It could describe being a parent or…