
Between growing diversity and rising inequalities, this simple question has turned into a challenge for many democratic societies.
Beyond debates about integration and the alleged incompatibility between cultures, the project zooms in into people’s everyday relationships unfolding in a cosmopolitan metropolis, a provincial town, and a rural area in Finland and France. Drawing on ethnographic methods, it explores how different people inhabit these places together, the bonds they form with others (or the lack thereof), and their struggles to build a meaningful existence there.

This year’s ETMU conference theme – ‘breaking barriers’ – cannot be separated from the broader context of an escalated state violence with regard to migration control and authoritarian tendencies…
In a fieldwork blog post Bruno Lefort shares an encounter he had with an elderly lady on the bus while conducting fieldwork in the provincial town of Troyes,…
On Tuesday 18th of November 2025 at 1PM (EET), Dr. Soukaina Chakkour of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morcco will give a guest lecture drawing on ethnographic research…