Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article explores the possibilities and limits of advancing social justice through language-related support for migrant workers in Thailand. Using collaborative autoethnography, we reflect on our experiences in two university-led initiatives with M…
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This study examines how frontline restaurant employees in Malaysia experience and interpret the integration of service robots within a labor-scarce hospitality sector characterized by reliance on a migrant workforce and high-touch service traditions. D…
InVisible Culture
El proyecto de apropiación social del conocimiento (ASC) en el Corredor de Vida del Cesar tuvo como fin promover la participación comunitaria para diseñar un modelo de transición productiva. Su objetivo principal fue identificar las condicio…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how France has been represented in Malian media and how major geopolitical events have driven these shifts. Using a corpus of 822 Maliweb articles published between 2017 and 2024, the study int…
Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork on the Galapagos Islands, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), this article argues that the multiple geographical imaginaries of the archipelago as a ‘laboratory’ or ‘pristine nature’ that are …
While extensive research on home–school cooperation has been conducted both in Nordic countries and beyond, the perspectives of immigrant parents have received little attention. To bridge the gap, this qualitative study examines the narrativ…
In this article, I explore compassion both as a social emotion and as a practice of encounter in ethnographic research. I argue that compassion is not a plain emotion but instead a socially relational one that prompts cognitive processes, le…
Highly skilled migrants in Sweden are at risk of exclusion from professions commensurate with their qualifications, particularly in regulated fields like nursing. In response, national policies and programmes have been introduced to facilita…
Chile is one of the democracies that has significantly expanded citizenship rights. Foreign-born residents over the age of 18 years who have lived in the country for at least five years are automatically registered on the electoral rolls, ar…
In this article, we examine barriers to the social integration of highly skilled immigrants in Norway, drawing on qualitative interviews. Many participants described significant challenges in forming friendships with Norwegians. Responding t…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
This article investigates how Ukrainian migrants and war-displaced persons in Finland experience and evaluate interpreter-mediated encounters in public service settings following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on 57…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article examines Somali WhatsApp groups as socio-technical gathering spaces used for emergency assistance during crises. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork in Nairobi and Mogadishu, and a case study of a WhatsApp gro…
InVisible Culture
InVisible Culture
In Indonesia, the intersection of sexuality, privacy, and human rights has become an increasingly contentious issue, particularly regarding consensual relationships. The new Indonesian Criminal Code, which expands provisions on adultery, cre…
Although relevant literature captured why pagtawad (haggling) is a culture, previous studies overrule the sociopolitical and economic factor that explains the broader reason why pagtawad becomes a buyer’s escape to the state crisis that this…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
The article uses the concepts of social wage and lifestyle migration to discuss the motivators of working-class migrants from Estonia to Nordic countries (Finland and Sweden). The present research challenges the long-standing tradition of de…
Diferentes tipos de seres demoniacos viven en la Pachamama, la personificación de la naturaleza, y se alimentan de los sacrificios que los humanos les hacen con la finalidad de asegurarse una buena salud, prosperidad en las cosechas, y multiplic…
This article addresses the stool of thought from the perspective of a researcher from the Bará people of the Upper Negro River, an Eastern Tukanoan people situated in Northwestern Amazonia. Bará children are offered the stool, a being consi…