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When Humans Become Migrants

The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media…

In defence of our universal double standards

The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief,…

Thematic week: History of Human Rights

This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…

The second Helsinki Knots Symposium: 23 October 2015

Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic…

Call for reviews: Recent publications on Race

It’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in many of the reviews…

Crisis and Continuity: A Critical Look at the “European Refugee Crisis”

Writing ethnography in sites and times of “crisis” is a challenge that more and more anthropologists are dealing with, as this historical moment is…

A conversation with De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change #Palestine

De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change is a project that we, as Allegra Lab, could not ignore when doing our researches for…

The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse

“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has often been defined as…

Children of Afghanistan. The Path to Peace

In 1978, psychologist Jack Flasher defined the term ‘adultism’ as a way of perceiving children “not only as unconditionally subordinate until they attain legal…

Gender in Refugee Law. From the Margins to the Centre

Since gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes and the legal framework…

REDUX: 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 broadcast from the militarised…

From the Centre of Europe to the End of the World: Intimate reflections on activism, healing and belonging in the field

I was not feeling any particular excitement or thrilling feverishness. Preparing for the unknown journey into fieldwork in Santiago de Chile to research inner dynamics…