according to their needs.” What, for example, do we owe refugees and migrants? Despite the fact that our laws of citizenship and our sense of nationality exclude them from entering our affluent world and receiving the benefits of it, is there some principle
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Ethnographic Engagement with Bureaucratic Violence
Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke
’s article highlights the centrality of documentation. In Chile, official documents are pivotal to one’s ability to legally “exist” as a migrant, but unattainable documents in the private housing sector place individuals in precarious and unsafe housing
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The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement
Henrik Vigh and Jesper Bjarnesen
seem foreign and frightening (a common experience of many xenophobic nationalists or stranded civilians). Just as being emplaced may necessitate a move away from the place where one seeks to locate oneself socially (a common experience for many migrants
Philippine Prison Marriages
The Politics of Kinship and Women's Composite Agency
Sif Lehman Jensen
everyday of women remain unexplored. I seek to address this gap by reflecting on how women maneuver the entangled relationship of family and insurgency politics that characterizes their home communities in everyday life as migrants at the urban periphery of
Liberation Autochthony
Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
disruption of social structures and propelled a system of migrant labor that extended throughout the Southern African region ( Moorsom 1989 ; Wallace 2011 ; Werner 1993 ). The ensuing state form differentiated starkly between settlers and natives and
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Ethnographies of Private Security
Erella Grassiani and Tessa Diphoorn
. “ Intimidation, Reassurance and Invisibility: Israeli Security Agents in the Old City of Jerusalem .” Focaal 75 : 14 – 30 . 10.3167/fcl.2016.750102 Hansen , Thomas Blom , and Finn Stepputat . 2005 . Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in
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Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa
Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both
people in the region underwent the same fate. Others chose refuge, which was often, though not always, synonymous with rebellion. Despite his forced conversion, Adoum was now a Muslim praying five times a day. He had also become a seasonal migrant to N
“Where Is the New Constitution?”
Public Protest and Community-Building in Post–Economic Collapse Iceland
Timothy Heffernan
participants; most were locals aged 35 to 75, with few tourists or migrants participating. 4 Bleating sheep featured in one song to ridicule the incumbent prime minister. As a UN Champion of the HeForShe gender equality campaign, Benediktsson was satirized
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Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
Crossroads .” Metropolitics , 26 June . Bendixsen , Synnøve . 2017 . “ The Production of Irregular Migrants: The Case of Norway .” Dve Domovini— Two Homelands 45 : 29 – 43 . Brown , Marvin . 2010 . “ Free Enterprise and the Economics of
Leyla Neyzi, Nida Alahmad, Nina Gren, Martha Lagace, Chelsey Ancliffe, and Susanne Bregnbæk
Syria, the migrant crisis in Europe, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, and so on brought him to reconsider the relevance of critical thinkers—in particular, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers