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On the Doorstep of Europe. Asylum and Citizenship in Greece

October, 2015 / By Sébastien Bachelet

On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification, […]

October, 2015 / By Gabriela Radulescu

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

October, 2015 / By Sarita Fae Jarmack

With students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle

September, 2015 / By Sonja Trifuljesko

Prologue When the fireworks in the Senate Square in Helsinki announced the beginning of 2015, they also marked the start

September, 2015 / By Amina Tawasil

In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education,

August, 2015 / By Amina Tawasil

The bus I was riding on my way to Tajrish (north Tehran) was beyond maximum capacity with its passengers. We

August, 2015 / By Nirmala Jayaraman

Albertin Sarrazin once wrote, “whether you’re on the lam or whether you’re out hustling, gold is worth nothing compared to

July, 2015 / By Costanza Curro

Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last

In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the

This book comes to life as a product of fifteen years of research in and about the festive culture of