Book review of Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin. 2023. Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders. Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines. New York: Berghahn. 276 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
‘I Have Completely Exhausted Myself During This Journey’: Female Citizens’ Experiential Migrantisation in the Face of Their Foreign Spouse’s Deportability
This article examines how a foreign partner’s deportability influences Finnish women. The concept of ‘experiential migrantisation’ offers particular utility for this analysis in that it elucidates the negative impacts of immigration regimes …
Book review of Lubit, Amanda J. 2025. Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland: An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement, and Placemaking. New York: Berghahn Books, 205 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
‘He Was the Most Important’: How General Practitioners Support Syrian Refugees in Navigating Norway as a Receiving Society
Refugees often face psychological strain related to war trauma, uncertain legal status, and unfamiliar societal expectations. Health challenges may further hinder their ability to engage in employment, education, and civic life. This qualita…
Circulación y movilidad de la máquina de coser en territorios salitreros y Lican Antay (1870-1950)
Este artículo examina la circulación, apropiación y resignificación de la máquina de coser en el norte de Chile, centrándose en territorios salitreros e indígenas Lican Antay entre fines del siglo XIX y mediados del siglo XX. A través de una metodologí…
Políticas migratorias en retrospectiva. Entrevista a Lelio Mármora
Este texto presenta una entrevista a Lelio Mármora, referente central de los estudios migratorios en América del Sur, realizada en 2019, en un contexto regional e internacional marcado por intensos debates sobre gobernanza migratoria. La conversación s…
Uncomfortable encounters: expected and unexpected experiences with human remains in museums
The following article looks at the ethical considerations of displaying Human Remains in museums, considering both the deceased as well as the museum visitor. Using autoethnographic examples from various museum contexts, I discuss how encounters with H…
Asociación entre los niveles de cortisol en pelo y la autopercepción psicológica frente al estrés en estudiantes de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile
El estrés es uno de los fenómenos más notorios en la actualidad y en tanto se torna crónico afecta la salud de las personas en múltiples niveles. El estrés académico afecta a los estudiantes universitarios durante su proceso de formación, repercutiendo…
UN Mandate Misalignment: Crisis and Context of MINUSMA in Mali
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), established in 2013, represents one of the most complex and challenging peacekeeping operations in UN history. Despite its ambitiou…
Review of Wolfram H. Dressler. 2025. For the sake of forests and gods: Governing life and livelihood in the Philippine uplands
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Review of Wolfram H. Dressler. 2025. For the sake of forests and gods: Governing life and livelihood in the Philippine uplands
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Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Cartel Economies and Urban Governance: The Interplay of Performative Politics, Social Embeddedness, and Land Control in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Land governance in Nairobi is shaped by hybrid systems that blur the boundaries between formality and informality, especially in informal settlements which houses over 60 per cent of the city’s population. Land cartels …
“Informal” Land Demarcation Systems: A Lifeline to De-Escalation of Land Conflicts and Promotion of Peace in Post-War Acholiland, Northern Uganda
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This study examines how the re-emerging “informal” land demarcation systems contribute to the de-escalation of land conflicts and promotion of peace in post-war Northern Uganda. Although relative peace and normalcy have…
Review: Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Ludo Tricks and the Unserious Actor in the Trucking Business
Anthropological studies based on participant observation, with the goal of producing context-sensitive, holistic sociocultural descriptions of high-risk industries, are few and far between. This article focuses on the intentional bending and breaking o…
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Vulnerabilitat estructural i jerarquies d’ètnia i ciutadania a la granja
Cada any, els Estats Units donen feina a gairebé dos milions de treballadors agrícoles temporers, aproximadament la meitat dels quals son migrants (Rothenberg, 1998). Aquest article es basa en un any d’observació participant duta a terme en una finca d…
Comprendre la sobrietat energètica a través de la sobrietat etnofílmica. La relació amb la tècnica i el treball en la representació d’alternatives ecològiques
La lleugeresa del dispositiu fílmic, la versatilitat de l’investigador-cineasta, el principi de no intervenció en la realitat observada i el caràcter experimental de l’enfocament etnofílmic constitueixen, d’una banda, l’expressió d’una enginyositat cie…
“Està tot al teu cap”: repensant la migranya crònica des d’una perspectiva antropològica i feminista
Les malalties cròniques representen un dels temes d’estudi prevalents en l’àmbit de l’Antropologia de la Salut, no obstant això sembla no haver-hi cabuda per a la migranya crònica, com a malaltia feminitzada, ja que afecta especialment les dones, i inv…
Seguretat alimentaria i desigualtat social en clau antropològica
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