migrants, expatriates, and ethnic minority diasporic communities in Malaysia and Brunei. Writing this essay has given me an opportunity to reflect on the common theme underlying these research and teaching endeavors—that of differential rights accorded to
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“Studying Up” the Global Division of Labor and Mobility in the Humanitarian Industry in Jordan
Reem Farah
's socioeconomic issues, such as “driving up housing costs, forcing down wages, and increasing unemployment among Jordanians” ( Zyck and Armstrong 2014: 6 ). At the same time, an unprecedented influx of expatriate humanitarians arrived to address the forced
Rafael Guendelman Hales
network of communication among its members, and acts as an important meeting center for different activities related to culture, politics, and expatriate Iraqi society in general. There are two main groups that meet regularly: the Older People's Group and
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Mette Louise Berg, and Johanna Waters
“expatriate” versus “local” humanitarian workers in Jordan. Further expanding the focus on local responses to displacement, Heather Wurtz and Olivia Wilkinson examine the ways that local faith actors in Mexico and Honduras conceptualize and engage with
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J. D. Y. Peel
Marloes Janson, Wale Adebanwi, David Pratten, Ruth Marshall, Stephan Palmié, Amanda Villepastour, and J. D. Y. Peel
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antithetical to the iconoclastic tradition. The irony was that this revival was associated with initiatives from above and outside. It always struck me that expatriates with cultural interests (and an appetite for the authentically traditional) were easier with
Conservation-Induced Resettlement
The Case of the Baka of Southeast Cameroon—A Variation on the Habitual Mobility–Immobility Nexus
Harrison Esam Awuh
by the Bantu and a few expatriates. 38 Yasuoka, “The Sustainability of Duiker.” 39 Clapperton Mavhunga identifies firearms as incoming technology received and used by Africans with a variety of social outcomes. He goes on to emphasize the role of
When Transit States Pursue Their Own Agenda
Malaysian and Indonesian Responses to Australia's Migration and Border Policies
Antje Missbach and Gerhard Hoffstaedter
, Hong Kong, and the Middle East ( IFRC 2015 ). Indonesia grants work rights to expatriates with specialist skills but remains unwilling to grant residency rights to asylum seekers and refugees currently within its territory, fearing that they would
Religion through the Looking Glass
Fieldwork, Biography, and Authorship in Southwest China and Beyond
Katherine Swancutt
well espouse private property notions” as their “sensibilities are shaped in part by those of expatriate academics” (ibid.: 20). My experience with Nuosu academia dates back to my initial fieldwork in Ninglang in 2007, where my very first contacts