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Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in the Contemporary Global Novel
Two of the most important global crises of the current historical moment are migration and climate change, with the attendant biodiversity loss and other ecological problems.
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Xenophobia, Migrancy and Multiculturalism
Different causes and expressions of xenophobia are analysed by comparing three countries: South Africa, Germany and Canada.
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The Future of Human Mobility and Migration
The future of human society – and indeed, the very meaning of what it is to be human – is inextricably related to mobility.
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STIAS Series Volume 18: Migration Vulnerability: Access to Social Protection for Select Migrant Categories
Migration Vulnerability: Access to Social Protection for Select Migrant Categories Marius Oliver, Avinash Govindjee & Evance Kalula AFR...
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Leila Aboulela: Writing Women, Writing Islam
This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b.
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Limbo: A Novel
My aim is to work on a draft of a novel I’ve been writing for several years.
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Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad
Diawara, Mamadou. 2020. Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad. In Ross Anthony and Uta Ruppert (Eds.), Reconf...
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Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
Okolo, Ifeyinwa G. 2019. Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. English Studies in Africa, 62(2), 112–123....
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Conviviality at the Crossroads
Hemer, Oscar, Maja Povrzanović Frykman and Per-Markku Ristilammi. (Eds.). 2020. Conviviality at the Crossroads. Cham: Springer International...
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Stratégies familiales, diasporas et investissements: Migrations, mobilités et développement en Afrique Tome 2
Eyebiyi, Elieth P and Angèle Flora Mendy. 2019. Stratégies familiales, diasporas et investissements: Migrations, mobilités et développement ...
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The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Piot, Charles. 2019. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Durham: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-fixer
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Strange expectations: Cameroonian migrants and their German healthcare providers debate obstetric choices
Feldman-Savelsberg, P. (2019). Strange expectations: Cameroonian migrants and their German healthcare providers debate obstetric choices. Gl...
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Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
Adam, Heribert, and Kogila Moodley. 2015. Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada. P...
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Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain
James, Deborah and Samuel Kirwan. 2019. ‘Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain. Social Anthropology, 1469–86...
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STIAS Series Volume 3: Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley SUN PRESS (2...
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Migration Vulnerability and Access to Social Protection
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
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Planetary Prejudices: Race, Migration, and Technology in the New Global Order
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
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The Wind Scatters
This envisaged collection will comprise of short stories set in different periods over a century, beginning from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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Rethinking Immigrant Integration in a Mass-Migration Era: Migrant Families in Comparative Perspective
In our era of mass migration, understanding migrant families’ efforts to forge and maintain meaningful social and civic ties is more important than ever.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Meeting Long Term Challenges
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford.
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Devil With Blue Eyes
Devil With Blue Eyes is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
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The right to have rights: from migration to integration
One of the key tasks of my stay at STIAS will be to work on a project that addresses the normative and institutional basis of what Hannah Arendt calls the right to have rights.
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Writing Across Borders – In Praise of Impurity
The idea of combining and possibly merging ‘ethnography’ and ‘fiction’ emanates from my research on literature’s role in the transition processes of South Africa and Argentina (Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina,2012), which brought me in the end, to my own surprise, to the crossroads of Literature and Anthropology.
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Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa
The aim of this project is to explore how to marry ethnography and fiction in understanding the intricacies, nuance and complexity of African mobility and mobile Africans as frontier beings.
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Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship
A book about Togolese who apply for the US Diversity Visa lottery will be completed.