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.
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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.
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Book review of Gómez-Ciriano, Emilio José, Cabiati, Elena, and Dedotsi, Sofia (eds.) 2023. Migration and Social Work: Approaches, Visions and Challenges. Bristol: Policy Press, 248 pp.
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Book Review of Frontiers of Belonging
Book review of: Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Book review of Schimanski, Johan and Nyman, Jopi (eds.) 2023. Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 276 pp.
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Book review of Sealy, Thomas, Uberoi, Varun and Meer, Nasar (eds.) 2024. The resilience of multiculturalism: Ideas, politics, practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 328 pp.
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Book Review of Horsti, Karina 2023. Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 286.
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Book review of Martin, Lawrence M. 2024. Foreigners in their own country: Identity and rejection in France. New York: Berghahn. pp. 268.
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Book Review of Helms, Elissa and Pulkkinen, Tuija. (eds.) 2023. Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 181.
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Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.
The main aim of the recent Handbook on Home and Migration was to overcome the case study-based fragmentation of the discussion on homemaking among people on the move, and to elevate it to a substantive thematic, conceptual and theoretical le…
Book review of Hübinette, Tobias. 2024. Svenska Asiater: Asiatisk rasism och framväxten av en ny minoritet [Asian Swedes: Asian racism and the emergence of a new minority]. Stockholm: Verbal. 287 pp.
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Book Review of Solano, Priscilla. 2024. Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 188 pp.
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Book Review of Eick, Gianna Maria. 2024. Welfare Chauvinism in Europe: How Education, Economy and Culture Shape Public Opinion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 176.
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Book Review of Keskinen, Suvi. 2022. Mobilising the Racialised ‘others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics. London: Routledge. 164 pp.
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Book Review of Hoegaerts, Josephine, Liimatainen, Tuire, Hekanaho, Laura and Peterson, Elizabeth (Eds.) 2022. Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 373 pp.
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Book Review of Ahlholm, Maria, Piippo, Irina and Portaankorva-Koivisto, Päivi (Eds.) 2023. Vastasaapuneet Luokkahuoneissa: Ikkunoita Valmistavaan Opetukseen Ja Monikieliseen Kouluun. Tampere: Vastapaino, 376 pp.
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Charle. Matthieu. 2019. Cœur d’Alene: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Lustenberger. Sybille. 2021. Judaism in Motion: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Kaufmann. Lena. 2021. Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China: Book Review
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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…
Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic
Reviewed by Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester Hentyle Yapp. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 Pages. At first glance, the title of the book, Minor China, seems to counterintuitively bel…
Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Reviewed by Luke Jarzyna, University of Rochester Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 248 Pages. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination (hereafter SPBI) brings toget…
Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968
Reviewed by Malaika Sutter, University of Bern James Voorhies, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017. 288 pages. In James Voorhies’ first monograph, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critic…
Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, Independent Researcher Klara Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. 480 pages. The theory of “Six Degrees of Separation” (or perhaps more humorously known…
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Reviewed by Luke Urbain, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. London: Verso Books, 2019. 656 pages. With the urgency of a manifesto and the volume of a brick, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s recent b…