Living Displacement – thematic week on refugees!
Edward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is […]
Call for reviews – Refugees and Migration
This week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To
Refugees Threads
Palestinian refugees and the current Syrian conflict: from settled refugees to stateless asylum seekers?
The Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of
D’exode en exode: Le conflit Syrien comme révélateur de la vulnérabilité des réfugiés palestiniens
Le conflit de Syrie a depuis 2011 sévèrement affecté les quelques 600’000 réfugiés palestiniens résidant alors dans ce pays, causant
When Camps Become Home: Legal implications of the long-term encampment in Zaatari
Over the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence
‘15 Minutes’: Artistic responses to German refugee temporalities
“Early in the morning”, one of my informants, a 39 year-old Iranian political refugee and former lecturer at the University
Stitched Up, part 1/2!
Tansy E. Hoskins. 2014. Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Pluto Press. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780745334561. Tansy E. Hoskins’
My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork
Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for
‘B2Gold has to go!’ Rancho Grande’s Struggle against a Canadian open pit gold mine in Northern Nicaragua
In October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed
Paul Gilroy: “The history of our movement against racism has to be understood as an asset in the consolidation of Europe’s beleaguered democracy”
Paul Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the Black Atlantic diaspora, as a