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Maha, a Young Pediatrician is Forced to Leave her Daesh (ISIS)-Controlled Hometown in Northern Raqqa
She eventually leaves Syria for Turkey and hopes to continue on to Germany.
Read moreArchetypes of Escape #6: “I would be shamed if I did not go”
Mainly expressed by young men pushed into going by their families, it has become a social norm. Others have made
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A Woman’s Journey of Worry
A young mother from the DRC travels by motorcycle from a Ugandan refugee camp to collect a remittance sent by
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Financial Journey of Refugees in the Mediterranean
What can money reveal about the experience of migration? This video, created by Charlie Bentley, highlights the groundbreaking research of Kim Wilson and Roxani Krystalli, using finance as a lens to understand migration journeys throughout the Mediterranean.
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Retaining, Changing, and Surrendering Hegemonic Masculinities
By Subin Mulmi, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Transatlantic migration from South Asia is a long, arduous, and expensive journey but each year many South Asians risk their lives to reach the supposed dreamland of the United States. A large majority of the South Asians that I met during our re-search in 2018 in Costa Rica were men, prompting a focus on how men experienced long-distance migration.
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No Sweat – If You Are a Woman
By Madison Chapman, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. What does it mean to have dignity and personal agency as a migrant? Men and women told their stories to me in very distinct ways, through body language and in their retelling of traumatic events. What does this tell us about understanding gender in ethnographic research and the stories we do and do not hear while interviewing?
Read moreYou and I Are Not Friends: The Challenges of Ethnographic Study in the Migration Field
By Padmini Baruah, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Transnational migration has been one of the most talked-about phenomena of the past decade. With prolonged armed conflict, economic crises, and climate change affecting different parts of the world adversely, it is not a surprise that an estimated 258 million people live in a country that is not the country of their birth.1 Much news has been generated on this subject, and multiple studies have focused on the macro aspects of this issue. However, equally vital is not losing sight of the fact that while broad patterns and theories can explain the macrophenomenon of transnational migration, each migrant’s story is ultimately a subjective and entirely personal lived experience. The powerful contribution of the individual narrative as well as of ethnographic observations to academic studies in this field cannot be overlooked.
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