Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these four might be useful…
Read MoreI am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these four might be useful…
Read MoreThree years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A growing body of critical…
Read MorePlenary B “Migrants, Refugees and Public Anthropology”, Andre Gingrich, Marie-Claire Foblets, Ruben Andersson, 16 August 2018 Notes on Migration Policies by Nila Jeep …
Read MoreThe following words, as well as two other poems to be published on Allegra in the near future were written during three plenaries at…
Read MoreIn this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…
Read MoreTourism creates and depends on an entanglement of temporary and permanent displacements; at the same time it manipulates and projects dreams of freedom. This…
Read More‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966:…
Read MoreThis post explores the notion of displacement through the experience of Franziska, who has spent her whole life in a peaceful touristic village of…
Read MoreIn a situation of displacement, migrants and Argentinians forge social relations and thereby emplace themselves in a Buenos Aires shopping centre. Doing research on…
Read MoreThrough the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and hint to the need…
Read MoreDehumanisation is at the core of displacement: it requires that a group of people—because of race, class, migration status, or other factors—have lesser access…
Read MoreBased on the experiences of two young Eritreans who arrived in Switzerland as unaccompanied minors, this article thinks through the feeling of being made…
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