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…
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This thematic thread examines our age as one of ‘the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration’. Curated by Luigi Achille.
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 continue their work, we…
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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 Palestinian refugees displaced inside…
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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 la mort de milliers…
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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 and insecurity. Since the…
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‘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 of Teheran told me,…
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NATIONALISM, POLITICS AND THE EVERYDAY IN A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP
During the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in 1955 on the outskirts…
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“You don’t know me”: Disorientation, Reorientation, and Not Knowing in the Ethnography of Asylum and Refugees
During 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…
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The Deportation Corridor. A spatial, institutional and affective state of transit
In the course of the last two decades, the territorial exclusion of unwanted foreigners, constructed as a threat to national security, has become an…
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‘Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan’ – Katarzyna Grabska talks about her book
Stories 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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