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#Review: On the Doorstep of Europe. Asylum and Citizenship in Greece http://allegralaboratory.net/review-on-the-doorstep-of-europe-asylum-and-citizenship-in-greece/ On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification, unpredictability, and arbitrariness” (p.217), as well as very low percentage of positive decisions. This seminal work explores the crisis (Krisi in Greek, which also refers to judgement) of governance and democracy as Greece is portrayed [...] #Review: Gender in Refugee Law. From the Margins to the Centre http://allegralaboratory.net/review-gender-in-refugee-law-from-the-margins-to-the-centre/ Since gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes and the legal framework have constantly been influenced by questions of gender. However, gender is no longer at the centre of refugee agenda and, as the evidence beyond this volume suggests, even in the jurisdictions [...] #Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age http://allegralaboratory.net/review-child-migration-and-human-rights-in-a-global-age/ Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media stories about child and adult migrants dying in the Mediterranean (not to mention the US-Mexico border and recent stories from Australia) and European borderlands, the treatment of Indigenous Canadian children as the truth [...] REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ #BORDERS http://allegralaboratory.net/fear-by-numbers-on-the-rise-of-europes-illegality-industry/ It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been broadcast from the militarised Greek-Turkish border and the deadly waters around the Italian island of Lampedusa. Yet now the migratory “crisis” has also reached Spain, whose interior minister recently declared an emergency in response to […] ------------------------ Julie Billaud, PhD Researcher Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology [log in to unmask] Book: Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan Editor in Chief and Moderator Allegra Lab allegralaboratory.net ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************