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Struggles for home: Violence, hope and the movement of people

 Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often carrying implicit ‘sedentarist’ assumptions of a naturalised link between people and particular … Continue reading Struggles for home: Violence, hope and the movement of people →

Class Contention and a World in Motion

  Edited by Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber   Summary Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects … Continue reading Class Contention and a World in Motion →