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Book Review: Fragile Hope

Pearl Pandya Published: 2026-06-25 Categories: English

This submission is a review of Sandhya Fuchs’s Fragile Hope. Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India. The review argues that Fragile Hope shows the success of India’s Atrocities Act cannot be measured by legal outcomes like convictions, b…

Book review of Eichler, Jessika and Topidi, Kyriaki (eds.) 2022. Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 256 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2026-04-09 Categories: English

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2026-04-09 Categories: English

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2026-04-09 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2026-01-21 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2026-01-21 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Frontiers of Belonging

Marco Motta Published: 2025-11-13 Categories: English

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-09-04 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-09-04 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Horsti, Karina 2023. Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 286.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book review of Martin, Lawrence M. 2024. Foreigners in their own country: Identity and rejection in France. New York: Berghahn. pp. 268.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

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.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Solano, Priscilla. 2024. Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 188 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Eick, Gianna Maria. 2024. Welfare Chauvinism in Europe: How Education, Economy and Culture Shape Public Opinion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 176.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-15 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Keskinen, Suvi. 2022. Mobilising the Racialised ‘others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics. London: Routledge. 164 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-15 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Hoegaerts, Josephine, Liimatainen, Tuire, Hekanaho, Laura and Peterson, Elizabeth (Eds.) 2022. Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 373 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-12-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Lustenberger. Sybille. 2021. Judaism in Motion: Book Review

Anina Meier Published: 2023-02-22 Categories: English

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology

Kaufmann. Lena. 2021. Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China: Book Review

Rebekka Sutter Published: 2023-02-22 Categories: English

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology

Charle. Matthieu. 2019. Cœur d’Alene: Book Review

Jonas Musco Published: 2023-02-22 Categories: English

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology

Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics

IVC Author Published: 2022-12-05 Categories: English

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

IVC Author Published: 2022-01-25 Categories: English

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…