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Sacred Spaces and Civic Action

Topographies of Pluralism in Russia

Melissa L. Caldwell

remainder of the church buildings were either rented out to an ever-changing group of commercial enterprises ranging from realtors to travel agents or used as storage space for building supplies and informal housing for the Central Asian migrant workers who

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When the Outrage Becomes Personal, and the Urge to Act Unbearable

Therese Sandrup

involvement (2008: 75). Both Alek and Orhan have personal histories of migration, and well-established social networks in their places of origin. They also define themselves as Muslims. Various studies have showed that most migrants and their children retain

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“Eyes, Ears, and Wheels”

Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya

Francesco Colona and Tessa Diphoorn

in Niger .” Journal of Modern African Studies 50 ( 1 ): 53 – 74 . 10.1017/S0022278X11000607 Hansen , Thomas B. , and Finn Stepputat . 2005 . Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World . Princeton, NJ

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Navigating the Politics of Anxiety

Moral Outrage, Responsiveness, and State Accountability in Denmark

Mette-Louise Johansen

. His family were also well known to the social workers in Aarhus owing to their social problems. In other words, this family were stereotypical representatives of the kind of people who cause moral panic in Danish society: the migrant family living on

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Duress and Messianism in French Moyen-Congo

Meike J. de Goede

during the railway construction that many perished ( Azevedo 1981 ; Sautter 1967 ). While faced with structural food shortages themselves, people in the Pool district supplied food and migrant labor for Brazzaville. In addition, because of longer

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Unbecoming Veteranship

Convicted Military Officers in Post-authoritarian Argentina

Eva van Roekel and Valentina Salvi

. 2009 . “ Citizenship through Veteranship. Latino Migrants Defend the US Homeland.’ ” Anthropology News 50 ( 5 ): 8 – 9 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50508.x . 10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50508.x Plotkin , Mariano Ben , and Eduardo

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Religious Tourism

Analytical Routes through Multiple Meanings

Emerson Giumbelli

Translator : Jeffrey Hoff

that we find in his book. Commenting on what he calls disapora tourism, he notes that it “can be described as instances of cultural, diaspora, migrant or heritage tourism, or as pilgrimages” (ibid.: 51). This would include travel promoted for Afro

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On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam

Jeremy F. Walton and Piro Rexhepi

Experience . Sarajevo : Center for Advanced Studies . Kasaba , Reşat . 2009 . A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Kostić , Ivan Ejub . 2017 . “ Serbia .” In Scharbrodt et al

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Book Reviews

Ayse Serap Avanoglu, Diana Riboli, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Annalisa Butticci, Iain R. Edgar, Matan Shapiro, Brooke Schedneck, Mark Sedgwick, Suzane de Alencar Vieira, Nell Haynes, Sara Farhan, Fabián Bravo Vega, Marie Meudec, Nuno Domingos, Heidi Härkönen, Sergio González Varela, and Nathanael Homewood

by the American anthropologist Paul Stoller. Unlike his two previous works of fiction, Jaguar (1999) and Gallery Bundu (2005), which deal respectively with the problem of African migrants in the United States and the personal issues of memory, a

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Liminality and Missing Persons

Encountering the Missing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Laura Huttunen

during my visits. NOTES 1 Irregular migration causes the disappearance of a growing number of people in unclear circumstances in today’s world. One can claim that the disappearance of paperless migrants, often as victims of human trafficking, is a form of