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Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan

It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city. Hair salons, murals, restaurants,…

The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman

Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology at University of California,…

Roundtable II: Responses by David Danelo

What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Let’s consider two continents. At the beginning of 2015, Europe prided itself on the…

Roundtable II: Responses by Wendy Vogt

What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? It is widely estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked in Mexico…

Roundtable II: Responses by Luigi Achilli

What are the unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? From the perspective of media, border authorities, and public opinion, human smuggling is perceived…

Roundtable II: Responses by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano

What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Migrant smugglers exist because there is demand for people to move irregularly or illegally…

Roundtable II: Responses by Robert Barsky

What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Although aimed at reducing the suffering and risk incurred by migrants, forced and otherwise,…

Waiting for… EVENTS

What do you know: its YET AGAIN time for events! This month our eye was caught by a delightful spread of events addressing transition, cities,…

The Borderlands of Race

Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in…

On Extroverted Expertise, One-Handed Scientists & Dirty Laundry #REDUX

In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and…

Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition

My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European…

Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy

Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman –…