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Round Table: Responses by Paola Monzini

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…

#Review: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

Seth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician anthropologist, the author tries…

Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?

Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one…

Pragmatisms as Historical, Holistic, Total Social Facts

The theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s. It was a buzzword…

Four cheers for Finland! #EVENTS in the North (but not only there)

To conclude this Allegra week, it is time for yet another events’ post! These are always a thrill to us: they allow us to…

REDUX: ARTIFACTS AND ALLEGIANCES: HOW MUSEUMS PUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD ON DISPLAY

You just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in…

Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

It is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without…

The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!*

Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the…

Lessons from a King

For El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net – the coverage of the…

Response to Daniel Münster’s review of ‘The Darjeeling Distinction’

The Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. Darjeeling is…

Mohawk Interruptus

In the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters” (Keene 2015). Keene’s need to…

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a…