The New Ethnographer
Launched in April 2018, The New Ethnographer is an inclusive online project dedicated to making fieldwork safer, healthier and more
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Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork
Jennifer Cearns examines the persistent influence of the “Malinowskian” model of fieldwork on early-career anthropologists, arguing that traditional expectations of isolation and immersion create unnecessary guilt and anxiety in contemporary settings.
“Mish Hwn W Mish Hunaak”: Tracing Affective Landscapes of Exile With Poetic Resonance
When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.
Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont
During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker,
Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement
This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.
What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture
Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.
Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews
Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues
Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.
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Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of