All The Rage: Falling Apart in the Managerial World of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company
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Repertoires of Access: Corporate–Community Engagement in Chinese Bauxite Mining in Guinea
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Using a repertoire lens, this article examines business–community encounters around two large-scale greenfield projects operated by Chinese state-owned enterprises in Guinea’s bauxite frontier. The heuristic highlights …
Robots at the Table: Unveiling Employee Experiences of Robot Integration in Malaysia’s Hospitality Industry
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…
Editorial: Authority, Meaning, and Justice in Everyday Southeast Asia
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A Proxy of Social Justice? A Co/Autoethnographic Account of Language Testing and Translation Training for Migrant Workers in Thailand
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…
Marina Hassapopoulou. Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 328 pages.
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Constructing France: Shifting Media Representation in Mali, 2017–2024
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…
The geographical imaginaries of Galapagos: Scientific laboratory, tourist paradise, bureaucratic prison, or lifeworld?
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 …
Ukrainian Refugees’ Stances Towards Russian-Language Interpretation Services in Finland: Language, Identity and Emotion in Exile
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…
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
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
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Exhibition Review: Off the Grid by Howardena Pindell
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“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…
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…
Nordic Migration Research at a Crossroads
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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…