Category: Blog posts
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The distant others and conferencing in troubled times
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 that shape contemporary politics. In this context, migration scholars need to rethink what constitutes meaningful scholarship.
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BLOG POST: Da Bus*—Density in everyday encounters
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, France. The short episode included everything our project aims to engage with, from the entanglement of existences with political, social, and economic developments to people’s concerns and…