Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been […]
Breaking walls and exploring (post-soviet) borders
We live in a world organised along BORDERS – walls, lines, marks that we cannot cross, do not dare to
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last
Review of Border Work by Madeleine Reeves
In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the
Rethinking Refugees: Afghan Traders and Exiles in the Former Soviet Union
This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia
The Arab Spring: The Imaginary Borders of a ‘Revolution’
To continue our discussion on ‘borders’, Simone Maddanu offers an insight into the permanent liminal time-space in which migrants who