Book review of Eichler, Jessika and Topidi, Kyriaki (eds.) 2022. Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 256 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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Book review of Bijak, Jakub (ed.) 2024. From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 166 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Mogstad, Heidi 2023. Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece. New York: Berghahn Books, 278 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Interpersonal Austerity as a Barrier to the Social Integration of Highly Skilled Immigrants in Norway
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…
Party Membership among Foreign-Born Residents: Insights from Chilean Administrative Census Data (2017–2020)
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…
Between Benefit and Risk: Constructions of Skill and Competency of Internationally Educated Nurses in Sweden
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…
Compassion as a Social Emotion in Ethnographic Research with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
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…
Home–School Cooperation in Children’s Education: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Parents in Finland
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…
“An Integral Part of Our Lives”: WhatsApp Groups as Socio-Technical Gathering Spaces in Somali Drought Relief
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…
Exhibition Review: Between Giants and Snails: Sculpting with Wang Xu in a Time of Weathering
InVisible Culture
Exhibition Review: Off the Grid by Howardena Pindell
InVisible Culture
“A Consumer or Societal Indisposition?” Pagtawad as a Determinant of Macroeconomic and Sociopolitical Issues
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…
Sexuality, Privacy, and Human Rights: Rethinking the Criminalisation of Consensual Relationships in Indonesia
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…
Nordic Migration Research at a Crossroads
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Working-Class Migrants: Are they Motivated by Higher Social Wages and/or a Better Lifestyle?
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…
El cuerpo sacrificado
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…
A Panpsychist Theory of Shamanism
This paper develops a quadripartite panpsychist theory of shamanism(s). This fourpart framework revives and combines four theories: (i) mystical constructivism, (ii) role-taking theory, and (iii) mental imagery cultivation as a cultural pra…
I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
The use of citation metrics has progressed to a point where a growing number of scholars are contemplating the possibility of using citation practices to enforce necessary changes on the academia – preferential citing practices, citation bo…
With-nessing bacteria
This article addresses more-than-humans in ethnography by focusing on embodied encounters during fieldwork with the help of concepts such as relationality, being with, and with-nessing microbes. Through an ethnographic study of a diarrhoea …
The ‘Vitality of Water: Rethinking Modernist Hydropolitics and Ontologies’ International Symposium
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Kawen Adat: The Traditional Marriage Ritual of the Dayak Indigenous People of Indonesia
The marriage ritual for the Dayak Benawan Indigenous people is a sacred ceremony that has been carried out for generations. Traditional rituals are simultaneously performed with the wedding party for three consecutive days and three consec…
Lectio præcursoria–Rescue and Exchange: Tracing Sprouts of Viable Living in the Field of Help and Care in Finland
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing …
Book review: Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier.
Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Forest Cosmo-politics and the Agency of Plants: A Case Study from the Asháninka People in Peruvian Amazonia.
For Amazonian Indigenous people, the forest plays a vital role in sustaining their subsistence; it also serves as the social arena for interactions between different classes of beings. This paper analyses forest cosmo-politics and the agenc…