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Category: Migration

Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.

By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s … More

Capitalism, detention centre, immigration, Neoliberalism

Review: ‘Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States’

by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover … More

Anthropology, book, Capitalism, Ethnography, farmworkers, Review

Why do refugee children continue to take perilous journeys to reach the UK? 

by Isabel Soloaga Our government just removed the only legislation providing an alternative. In January, I revisited the refugee camps … More

How are Foreign Domestic Workers Implicated in the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong?

by Charlotte Brill ‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of … More

The Spinners of Boyanese Bhavacakra

by Danang Nizar Long outside the radar of anthropology, there was an ethnic group in a secluded island called Bawean, … More

Calais: Eighteen Months On

by Elisa Sandri Calais has frequently made the headlines in the last two decades. The history of this border as … More

From the Field: Persian New Year in Yiwu and Iranian Special Tea in Karachi

by Magnus Marsden One of my most memorable evenings while conducting fieldwork in Yiwu, China in 2016 fell on 20th … More

After Bukhara: Central Asian trading networks in Afghanistan and Beyond

By Magnus Marsden Several tombs of Afghanistan’s historic figures have been restored in recent years. In the Bagh-e Babur park … More

Agency, Upkeep, and Neglect in North Carolina Farm Labor Camps

by Bennett Heine In a recent article in Human Organization, co-authors Thomas Arcury, Sarah Quandt, and I draw from interviews … More

‘Volunteer Humanitarianism’ in the Jungle of Calais

by Elisa Sandri This article is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni, PhD researcher, and to his family, whom … More

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