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…
Read MoreYesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one…
Read MoreToday we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a…
Read MoreYou just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in…
Read MoreIt is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without…
Read MoreHello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is…
Read MoreThe current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media…
Read More‘Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is…
Read MoreOn Sunday 7 July 2015, the Cameroon Radio and Television in its weekly Sunday Program, Cameroon Calling, broadcasted what shocked the public audience. It…
Read MoreIn our 2-day workshop – Grounding (Im)mobilities – Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies – at the ICS in Lisbon this past September, more than 30 anthropologists gathered to…
Read MoreTime to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Documentary film. 2015. Produced and researched by: Katarzyna Grabska, Nicoletta Del Franco, and…
Read MoreOver the last decades, ‘moving subjects’ have captivated—if not demanded—more of anthropologists’ attention. As one of the forefront communicators of social phenomena as they…
Read MoreIn September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
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