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The United Nations\u2019 (UN) World Refugee Day<\/a> is observed on June 20 each year. This event draws public\u2019s attention to the millions of refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide who have been forced to flee their homes due to war, conflict and persecution. For more information please visit www.un.org<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

In marking this year\u2019s observance,\u00a0we’re pleased to offer a 25% discount on all Refugee and Migration Studies<\/a> titles for a limited time with code WRD18 on our website.<\/h4>\n
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\"ChildrenCHILDREN OF THE CAMP<\/a>
\nThe Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
\nCatherine-Lune Grayson<\/p>\n

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Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, and are now young adults. This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"CareCARE ACROSS DISTANCE<\/a>
\nEthnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
\nEdited by Azra Hromad\u017ei\u0107 and Monika Palmberger<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Care Across Distance<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MessyMESSY EUROPE<\/a>
\nCrisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
\nEdited by Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl<\/p>\n

Volume 32, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ParallelPARALLEL LIVES REVISITED<\/a>
\nMediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980
\nJozefien De Bock
\nForeword by Leo Lucassen<\/p>\n

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Combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and over one hundred oral history interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited<\/em> explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in a postwar Belgian city to provide a fascinating account of how their experiences of integration have changed at work and in their neighborhoods across two decades.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BishkekBISHKEK BOYS<\/a>
\nNeighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan\u2019s Capital
\nPhilipp Schr\u00f6der<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies, interethnic relations, friendship, and competing notions of belonging to the city, Bishkek Boys<\/em> offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among young males who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Playground Incident, the Field and a Conceptual Frame<\/a><\/p>\n

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Forced Migration<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Series<\/h3>\n

Published in association with the Refugees Studies Centre<\/a>, University of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n

This series, published in association with the Refugees Studies Centre<\/a>, University of Oxford, reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, sociology, politics, international relations, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Gender,Volume 37<\/p>\n

GENDER, VIOLENCE, REFUGEES<\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ulrike Krause<\/p>\n

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Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.<\/p>\n

Read Gender, Violence, Refugees. An Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"TheVolume 36<\/p>\n

THE MYTH OF SELF-RELIANCE<\/a><\/p>\n

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp<\/p>\n

Naohiko Omata<\/p>\n

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By following the same refugee households over several years, The Myth of Self-Reliancealso<\/em> provides valuable insights into refugees\u2019 experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Buduburam: An Exemplary Refugee Camp?<\/a><\/td>\n

\"MigrationN0w<\/em> In Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 35<\/p>\n

MIGRATION BY BOAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival<\/p>\n

Edited by Lynda Mannik<\/p>\n

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“This impressive collection of essays, centred on migration, borders, identities, and humanitarian ideals is both theoretically astute and ethnographically rich. Each contribution is solid and together they challenge readers to rethink the politics of migration.”<\/em> \u00b7 Refuge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"MakingForthcoming in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 34<\/p>\n

MAKING UBUMWE<\/a><\/p>\n

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Project<\/p>\n

Andrea Purdekov\u00e1<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough the author focuses upon Rwanda\u2019s unity-building project, she places her analysis within a wider social and political reflection. This makes the book a major contribution to the literature on contemporary Rwanda.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 African Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read PART I: INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n

\"The N0w in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 33<\/p>\n

THE AGENDAS OF TIBETAN REFUGEES<\/a><\/p>\n

Survival Strategies of a Government-in-Exile in a World of International Organizations<\/p>\n

Thomas Kauffmann<\/p>\n

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This book shows and discusses how Tibetan refugees continue to attract resources, due, notably, to the dissemination of their political and religious agendas, as well as how a movement of Western supporters, born in very different conditions, guaranteed a unique relationship with these refugees.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n

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For all the Volumes in the series please visit the series webpage.<\/a><\/h5>\n
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Now in Paperback<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\"BushBUSH BOUND<\/a>
\nYoung Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
\nPaolo Gaibazzi<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt a macro-micro level, this timely book exposes global transformations found in current globalist market economy and sheds light on the influences on these transformations as actualized at local level.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology Book Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Migration,MIGRATION, MEMORY, AND DIVERSITY<\/a>
\nGermany from 1945 to the Present
\nEdited by Cornelia Wilhelm
\nPreface by Konrad Jarausch<\/p>\n

Volume 21, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWilhelm\u2019s carefully assembled volume offers impressive and fresh overviews of postwar German history\u2026an overall excellent contribution to the history of migration and diversity in Germany. Surely not only historians will welcome Wilhelm\u2019s fine collection.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Contemporary Austrian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"SustainingSUSTAINING RUSSIA’S ARCTIC CITIES<\/a>
\nResource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change
\nEdited by Robert Orttung<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Studies in the Circumpolar North<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia’s Arctic Cities are definitely understudied, as are Arctic urban studies in general. Therefore the focus of this volume is timely and well chosen.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Florian Stammer<\/strong>, University of Lapland<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong> Russia\u2019s Arctic Cities: Recent Evolution and Drivers of Change<\/a><\/p>\n

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CAPRICIOUS BORDERS<\/a>
\nMinority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
\nOlga Demetriou<\/p>\n

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\u201cOlga Demetriou offers a fascinating examination of borders and border politics in Western Thrace, a politically significant and historically complex border region in Northern Greece\u2026 Through beautifully written ethnographic passages and careful analysis, Demetriou offers a sophisticated examination of how difference is experienced, made, managed, and deployed in everyday moments by communities and individuals, with and against state minoritization practices and strategies\u2026 [It] is immensely interesting and insightful.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"MigrationsMIGRATIONS IN THE GERMAN LANDS, 1500-2000<\/a>
\nEdited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, and Alexander Schunka<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe essays in this volume are thoroughly researched and address important aspects of central European migration, especially on three topical areas: religion and exile; flux and the politics of immigration; and cultures of exile and the formation of exile identities.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 European History Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong> Migration in the German Lands: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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Berghahn Journals<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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NEW IN 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Migration\u00a0and Society<\/strong><\/a>
\nAdvances<\/strong> in Research<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Migration and Society<\/em>\u00a0is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal advancing debate about emergent trends in all types of migration. The journal invites work that situates migration in a wider historical and societal context, including attention to experiences and representations of migration, critical theoretical perspectives on migration, and the social, cultural, and legal embeddedness of migration. Migration and Society\u00a0<\/em>addresses both dynamics and drivers of migration; processes of settlement and integration; and transnational practices and diaspora formation.<\/p>\n

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NOW OPEN ACCESS! <\/strong>View our blog post<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Anthropology in Action<\/strong><\/a>
\nJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropology in Action\u00a0<\/i>(AIA)\u00a0is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology.\u00a0The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>
\nImmigrant and Refugee Women: Recreating Meaning in Transnational Context<\/a><\/em>
\nDenise L. Spitzer<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Conflict and Society<\/strong><\/a>
\n Advances in Research<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Publishing peer-reviewed articles by international scholars, Conflict and Society<\/em> expands the field of conflict studies by using ethnographic inquiry to establish new fields of research and interdisciplinary collaboration. An opening special section presents general articles devoted to a topic or region followed by a section featuring conceptual debates on key problems in the study of organized violence.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>
\nStaying out of Place: The Being and Becoming of Burundian Refugees in the Camp and the City<\/a><\/em>
\nSimon Turner<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/i>\u00a0is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes ambitious and rigorous scholarship in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. The journal draws on a range of theoretical and political traditions to provide original insights into human social life and to critically interrogate the terms of the anthropological endeavour.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>
\nSuspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon<\/a>
\n<\/em>Leonardo Schiocchet<\/p>\n

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Focaal<\/strong> <\/a>
\nJournal of Global and Historical Anthropology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Focaal<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as “globalization” or “empire.”<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>
\nNonrecording the \u201cEuropean refugee crisis\u201d in Greece: Navigating through irregular bureaucracy<\/a><\/em>
\nKaterina Rozakou<\/p>\n

Focaalblog<\/strong><\/a>
\nFocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. Follow us on Twitter!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Social Analysis
\nThe International Journal of Anthropology<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Social Analysis<\/i>\u00a0is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis.\u00a0The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:<\/strong>
\nAvoiding Poison: Congolese Refugees Seeking Cosmological Continuity in Urban Asylum<\/a><\/em>
\nGeorgina Ramsay<\/p>\n

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