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…
Tag: migration
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…
Das individuelle Asylrecht ist die historische Konsequenz aus dem Scheitern von Kontingent-Lösungen
In einem Gastbeitrag für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hat der Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, Thorsten Frei, die Abschaffung des individuellen Asylrechts g…
A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I had spent the last…
Sprachen nach Bedarf statt Deutsch nach Vorschrift: Ein Plädoyer für einen pragmatischen Umgang mit Mehrsprachigkeit
Initialbeitrag von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], 03.07.2023 In wohlmeinenden Infobroschüren und Schulordnungen lesen wir Variatione…
Call for reviewers: Books on mobilities and migration!
The past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes, diasporic communities have sought…
Book Review | Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Donghyun Danny Choi et al.
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
Besser keine Reform als diese: Warum die Bundesregierung die GEAS-Reform stoppen sollte
Am 8. und 9. Juni werden die Innenminister:innen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Rat der Europäischen Union in Luxemburg zusammentreten, um sich auf eine Verhandlungsposition gegenüber der EU-Kommission un…
Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in his long dark-blue felted…
Für eine konsequentere Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts
Der Rat für Migration begrüßt, dass eine Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts angegangen wird. Ein deutlich einfacherer Zugang zur deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft bietet für die (post-)migrantis…
Ancient DNA Supports Swahili Oral Traditions
Two researchers explain how ancient DNA research is helping to restore the origin story of the Swahili people along the coastal region of East Africa. This article was…
Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as the words “2011: A…
Sticky Relationships at Wartime
Chimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but this plan proved hardly feasible with his low…
Ingrid Kummels on her new book, Indigenity in Real Time
Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indigeneity-in-real-time/9781978834781 María Eugenia Ulfe: Congratulations, Ingrid, for publishing this wonderful …
Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.
Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on October 13-14, 2022, in Berlin and focused on…
Rock Drawings
A Tohono O’odham poet and linguist reflects on the stories and wisdom ancestors communicated—how people survived, how they dispersed and differentiated, how they remember. “Rock Drawings” …
Review: Making Levantine Cuisine
Anny Gaul, Graham Ajman Pitts, Vichi Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas Press. Austin: 2021. ISBN: 9781477324585 Noha Fik…
Review: Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli. Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN:9780231202077 Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Politics is no…
Aufenthaltsverfestigung für Geduldete darf keine Lotterie sein – Stellungnahme zum Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht
Am 1. Januar 2023 ist das Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht in Kraft getreten. Die Situation der Geduldeten soll, wie im Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung angekündigt, verbessert werden. Obwohl das Gesetz …