NJMR: Over 10 Years of Commitment to Publishing Excellent Research
Published on 2022-12-07 12:01:27
Book review of Ferrero, Laura, Vargas, Ana Cristina and Guagliariello, Chiara (eds.) 2021. <i>Embodying Borders. A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies</i>. New York: Berghahn Books. 255 pp
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Book Review of Vatansever, Asli 2020. <i>At the Margins of Academia, Exile Precariousness and Subjectivity</i>. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 189 p
This is a book review: Ali Ali’s reading of Asli Vatasever’s ethnographic book on political and academic exiles. Asli Vatansever shows how the two forms of exile and precarization: 1) under state authoritarianism and 2) in the academic labor market are…
Book Review of de Haas, Hein, Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark J. 2020. <i>The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World</i>. New York and London: Guilford Press. Sixth Edition. 443 pp
de Haas, Hein, Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark J. 2020. The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World. New York & London: Guilford Press. Sixth Edition. 443 pp. Published on 2022-12-07 10:55:09
Perspectives on Migrant Care Workers in the Long-Term Care Sector: Identity Politics and Othering
Nursing homes for older seniors are considered an integral part of the Nordic welfare regimes, with a comparatively large proportion of employed native-born women. This is partly under change. An ageing population in interplay with increased difficulti…
Migrants and Swedish Activists in Solidarity: Pro-Asylum Activism as a Pathway of Political Socialisation in Malmö
The article examines how pro-asylum activism contributes to the political socialisation of precarious migrants who become activists, and how it facilitates their social and spatial emplacement in a particular locality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork…
Worrying about Migrant Mothers in Finnish News Journalism
This article investigates the framing of migrant mothers and migrant families in family policy journalism over a 20-year period between 1998 and 2018 in Finland. Using computational word-based searches and qualitative methods, we explore the ways in wh…
Attitudes Toward Muslims Among Majority Youth in Norway: Does Ethno-Religious Student Composition in Schools Matter?
This article examines how attitudes toward Muslims among native majority adolescents in Norway are associated with the ethno-religious composition of their school environment. The inflow of immigrants has changed the sociodemographic landscape in Norwa…
Transforming Biographical Experience Into Occupational Accountability: Paraprofessional Integration Workers’ Efforts to Professionalise Integration Support in Sweden
Integration support is a rather new professional field, and it is common for paraprofessionals (PPs) with personal migration experiences as their main qualification to perform the work without having a job description, education or ethical principles t…
Dimensions of Ethnic Boundary-Making: Experiences of Young Muslims and Christians in Religious Transnational Fields in Oslo
This article examines the religious transnational orientation among young Muslims and Christians in Oslo. The study draws upon Andreas Wimmer’s (2013) theory of ethnic boundaries to analyse the characteristics of the ethnic boundary-making emerge withi…
NJMR: Over 10 Years of Commitment to Publishing Excellent Research
Published on 2022-12-07 12:01:27
Book Review: Digital Cultures, Lived Stories and Virtual Reality by Thomas Maschio, Anthropology and Business Series. London and New York: Routledge
The author of this book, Thomas Maschio, has lived two anthropological lives; an earlier one as an academic anthropologist and a later one as an anthropologist running a company (Maschio Consulting) that specializes in the use of ethnographic research …
Divorcer au Maroc n’est pas toujours une affaire de couple
Au Maroc certaines personnes qui se séparent affirment vouloir quitter le conjoint notamment du fait que leur vie conjugale et personnelle est empiétée par les interventions d’une des belles-familles. Ces divorces ont une “composante communautai…
Retours d’enquêtes en terrain sensible à Lomé (Togo)
Cet article correspond au travail réflexif croisé d’une sociologue togolaise et d’une anthropologue française questionnant l’organisation quotidienne de deux profils de travailleuses à Lomé au Togo : des soignantes et des cheffes d’entreprise de…
Figures de la violence et rapport au métier. Approche comparative de la victimation de professionnels de santé français et roumains
Cet article se donne pour objectif de faire émerger les figures de la violence dans le secteur de la santé dans deux contextes nationaux spécifiques : le Nord, en France et Bucarest en Roumanie. La population au cœur de cette recherche étant cel…
Saisir le mouvement dansé par l’analyse des interactions corporelles
Cet article entend contribuer à l’analyse des interactions non verbales en prenant comme objet la danse classique. Le dialogue entre les outils de la sociologie et les apports de la recherche en danse permet de dégager des pistes méthodologiques…
Consciences du droit, connaissances et savoir-faire juridiques chez les soutiens aux personnes exilées
Cet article se propose d’examiner la manière dont les personnes apportant leur soutien aux exilé·e·s mobilisent et appréhendent le droit à Calais et à Briançon, deux villes devenues, à des époques et selon des modalités différentes, des pôles mi…
Genre, race et classe en éducation pour la santé périnatale
À partir d’une enquête sociologique au sein de dispositifs d’éducation pour la santé périnatale dédiés aux femmes enceintes étrangères en France, l’article interroge la manière dont les discours éducatifs des professionnelles de santé reproduise…
Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
Reviewed by Chelsea Wenzhu Xu, George Mason University David Houston Jones. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics. London: Routledge, 2022. Questions of evidence and ethics in photography have been taken up by many theorists, as phot…
Like Clockwork: Experts and Expertise in Stockholm’s Startup and Innovation Ecosystem
SthlmTech, Stockholm’s startup ecosystem, is famous for being an innovation hub that produces more billion-dollar startups per capita than anywhere else except Silicon Valley. This success, people within the community say, is down to the ecosystem of o…
Appropriate Disturbances: Team Development in Sports and Business
In this article, we will present an anthropological research project that explores possible benefits of comparing a professional handball club and a software company. More specifically, we turn our attention to the phenomenon of “disturbances.” In work…
How an Animation Production Studio Survived the Pandemic: The Case of Graphinica, Inc.
Journal of Business Anthropology
Organizing Cultural Change: Leveraging the Four Forces Framework
Journal of Business Anthropology
Book Review: Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
InVisible Culture
What Competition Does: An Anthropological Theory
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 66Issue: 4Pages: 1-25