Suicidal
In “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed fatal act. According to…
Read MoreIn “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed fatal act. According to…
Read MorePart Four: “When will this Covid be over?” During the first month of T.’s search for work in Dubai, Covid-19 felt like something that…
Read MorePart Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men…
Read MorePart Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills…
Read MoreArrivals to uncertainty In mid-December 2020, my friend T. returned to Dubai from Egypt in the hope of getting his old job back or…
Read MoreDid I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown…
Read MoreFor the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for a much-celebrated idol of…
Read MoreThe situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for…
Read MoreDuring the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided to move their activities…
Read MoreEvery day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently waiting to present their…
Read MoreIn his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut from 20%…
Read More‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The video uses viral…
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