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 indeed the age of…
Read MoreEdward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is indeed the age of…
Read MoreThis week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To continue their work, we…
Read MoreThe Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of Palestinian refugees displaced inside…
Read MoreLe conflit de Syrie a depuis 2011 sévèrement affecté les quelques 600’000 réfugiés palestiniens résidant alors dans ce pays, causant la mort de milliers…
Read MoreOver the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence and insecurity. Since the…
Read More“Early in the morning”, one of my informants, a 39 year-old Iranian political refugee and former lecturer at the University of Teheran told me,…
Read MoreDuring the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in 1955 on the outskirts…
Read MoreDuring a long drive in the snow to meet my family for the dubiously-founded yet nonetheless celebratory U.S.-American Thanksgiving, my husband Salvatore and I…
Read MoreIn the course of the last two decades, the territorial exclusion of unwanted foreigners, constructed as a threat to national security, has become an…
Read MoreStories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first in Egypt in 2002,…
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