Gaza and the Right to Have Rights
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Category: English
Music, Phones and Bank Loans
This article explores the making of two branded Spotify playlists to critique the concept of ‘affective labor.’ Over the last few decades, scholars have argued that social media users and creative industries workers alike are engaged in a ne…
Effects of Multilingualism on the Use of Linguistic Spatial Frames of Reference in Dholuo
The influence of multilingualism on the nature of spatial frames of reference remains largely unexplored in spatial cognition studies. The present study investigates verbal spatial representation amongst Dholuo multilinguals. It employs a photo-object …
The Introduction of Sugarcane in West-Central Africa
Due to the extreme scarcity of archaeological and historical data very little is known about the introduction of Southeast Asian crops such as banana, sugarcane, taro and greater yam in Africa and the role they played in the subsistence and …
Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
This study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction (A…
The Educated African and Colonialist Myths in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Through the example of Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North (1969), this article argues that education as provided by the colonial school system is an “undecidable” (Derrida), at once empowering and disempowering the educated…
Capital’s Preference for Foreign African Labour in South Africa: Reflections on Liberal Anti-xenophobia Research
In South Africa, in many economic sectors, foreign blacks are more likely to get a job than a similarly skilled black South African. This paper is about why employers prefer foreign African labour in South Africa, how this contributes to seeing South A…
Diversionary Post-Coal Politics in South Africa: A Chinese Solar-Powered Industrial Zone Controversy
In September 2021 at a United Nations climate summit in New York, Xi Jinping announced that there would be no further Chinese coal-fired power plants along the Belt and Road Initiative, which stretches as far as South Africa. Instead, the Chinese opera…
Cosmopolitan Paradox? The Labour Market Experiences of Newcomer Skilled Workers
Canada’s national narratives gesture to cosmopolitan ideals by celebrating the country as open and inclusive through the working of its immigration policy. Indeed, it has been suggested that Canada may be oriented toward a form of ‘rooted cosmopolitani…
Strategic Cosmopolitanism: Chinese Female Jadeite Live Streamers in Ruili
With China’s construction of free trade zones and the development of digital technology, immigrants from Myanmar and internal migrants from all parts of China have gathered in Ruili, a cross-border hub connecting the two countries. As a result of these…
Practice of Patriotism, Ethnocentrism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in India: An Interrogation
The central concern of this paper is to examine intersectionalities between the ideals of cosmopolitanism, patriotism, ethnocentrism and nationalism in general, and their changing facets and interfaces in India. It argues that being a multiethnic and p…
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh’s Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
In this globalized cosmopolitan world, the concept of home has become one of the most crucial socio-cultural perceptions, playing a significant role in establishing community and transnational relationships both at the local and the global level. Amita…
Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has not abandoned ‘the dream of cosmopolitan peace’ (Alexander 2005). The adjective ‘cosmopolitan’ refers to the political and philosophical concept that all human beings are members of a single community. In th…
“Living in the time of the butterfly:” Engaging more-than-human temporalities to rethink biodiversity conservation
This article describes the ecological accounts of Jñato and Hñähñu (also known as Mazahua and Otomi) people who inhabit a territory that is today the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in México. We draw on their narratives, documented through a multi…
Commentary: Aging Places: A Review Essay
This Commentary reflects on the convergence of social and geographical gerontology as presented in two books addressing place and aging with and without dementia. The two books are expansive in scope, exploring aging and dementia research and care prac…
Film Review: Circuits of Care: Ageing and Japan’s Robot Revolution
Anthropology & Aging
Institutional Care for our Elders: A Conversation with Dr. Ellen Badone
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into Migrants for Tackling the Old Age Care Crisis.
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Care Poverty: When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet.
Anthropology & Aging
Film Review: She Waves At Me
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Care Technologies for Ageing Societies: An International Comparison
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement.
Anthropology & Aging
The Woman with the Dog: Relationships between Pet Robots and Humans in a Danish Nursing Home for People with Dementia
In this article, we explore how pet robots come into being in a Danish nursing home for people with dementia, based on five months of ethnographic fieldwork. We argue that the researcher and the robot become an assembled temporary figure in the nursing…
“Estar Tranquilo”: Using a Life-course Approach to Explore Perceptions of Well-being among Older Adults in Curicó, Chile
This study assesses perceptions of well-being between two groups of older adults in Curicó, Chile. One group (n=12) were residents of a long-term care center (known as ELEAM), while another group (n=13) were members of two clubs for older adults – Estr…
Doing Kinship by Doing Law?
Anthropology Matters