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Check out Jaeeun Kim's and Apostolos Andrikopoulos's (@andrikopoulos.bsky.social) paper titled Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking "Fraud" in the Study of Migration, published in International Migration Review.
In Memoriam: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (1948–2025). AfAA mourns the loss of a pioneering scholar of African religious movements and expressive culture. Read the obituary by her longtime friend and collaborator, J.R. Osborn, on our website.
Our theorization of Unauthorized Identity Craft directs attention to these important but often neglected aspects and helps explain the (unpredictable) consequences and transformative effects of such practices.
This collaboration began with a shared dissatisfaction with unreflexive uses of “fraud” in migration research - not only because it is a state-centred category, but because it limits our understanding of migrants’ agency, creativity, relational labour, and moral dilemmas.
Out now: my new article with Jaeeun Kim in International Migration Review. We propose and theorize Unauthorized Identity Craft as a better alternative to “fraud” in migration studies. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
A great loss, he will be deeply missed..
#IMISCOE2025 here i come! Armed with water bottles and a fan.
Let me know which panels i shouldn't miss!!
I'll be presenting the introduction to our special issue on same sex marriage migration with @andrikopoulos.bsky.social and hosting a panel on family reunification politics with Gina Longo.
Αυτή την Πέμπτη (10/4) θα είμαι στη Θεσσαλονίκη για να παρουσιάσω το βιβλίο μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (13:00–15:00, Αμφ. 7).
Θα χαρώ πολύ να δω φίλους, παλιούς συμφοιτητές και όποιον άλλο ενδιαφέρεται!
Thank you to @scmrjems.bsky.social for publishing my perspectives on migration brokerage, human trafficking, and racialization in football. It has been a long time in the making!
@rcsunigroningen.bsky.social @fifpro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to Apostolos for his thoughtful (and critical!) engagement with my book. My response will be published soon.
My engagement with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social ' s must-read book on the experiences of young asylum seekers claiming protection as minors in Germany - a daring and sensitive ethnography that offers unique insights into the consequences of age classifications and their often unexpected outcomes.
RIP Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Today, the world feels like a smaller place without you. A brilliant mind, a model of an engaged anthropologist, and, most of all, a genuinely kind and caring person. You will be deeply missed.
Text: William A. Douglass Prize Honorable Mention. Book cover: Argonauts of West Africa.
Join us again in congratulating Apostolos Andrikopoulos on receiving an honorable mention for the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology for his book Argonauts of West Africa, which also won the Elliot Skinner Book Prize Award at #AAA2024!
So honored to share that my book #ArgonautsOfWestAfrica received the 2024 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
the Association for Africanist Anthropology
#AAA2024Tampa
How about a kinship studies starter pack?
Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share!
Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social