Over the past 20 years, migration to Chile has increased dramatically in size and scope, driven by Chile’s return to democracy, growing economy, and demand for unskilled labor. As migrants settle in Chile, they face numerous encounters with
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Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Locating Structural Violence at the Interstices of Bureaucracies
Megan Sheehan
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 151–166 (16 total)
Between Labor Migration and Forced Displacement
Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Transnational Space
Jesper Bjarnesen
rebels effectively divided the country in two, labor migrants and long-settled immigrant families were forced to return to their country of origin. While the Ivorian crisis to a large extent revolved around notions of autochthony and belonging that
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 52–67 (16 total)
Departheid
The Draconian Governance of Illegalized Migrants in Western States
Barak Kalir
How are we to make sense of systemic violence against unarmed migrants and refugees by numerous state actors in Western democratic countries? How do some of our fellow human beings who exercise mobility across states, and have not (yet or fully
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 19–40 (22 total)
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Michael D. Jackson
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
The Meanings of the Move?
From “Predicaments of Mobility” to “Potentialities in Displacement”
Stephen C. Lubkemann
affects social mobility at the individual level; (b) how both of these mobilities interact to transform social power and relations at the societal level; and (c) from a focus on migrants to the migration-affected. Against a long-standing tendency in the
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 16–36 (21 total)
Introduction
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
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 94–98 (5 total)
Introduction
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
Staying out of Place
The Being and Becoming of Burundian Refugees in the Camp and the City
Simon Turner
undocumented migrants. The refugees living in this part of the city often came from the camps and had only little knowledge of the neighborhood where they lived but had an extensive knowledge of the network of Burundians living clandestinely in this part of the
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 37–51 (15 total)
"Our Future Is Already in Jeopardy"
Duress and the Palimpsest of Violence of Two CAR Student Refugees in the DRC
Maria Catherina Wilson Janssens
migrant world, also applies to the refugee world. Michael Jackson argues that migrants are able to give up the life to which they were born because they believe they will be able to gain a more abundant life in the future (2008: 60). If one is unable to
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 214–230 (17 total)
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
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 186–201 (16 total)