Migration
Becoming Legal
Ruth Gomberg-Munoz first book, Labor and Legality (2011), explores the lives of undocumented Mexicans living in Chicago. This book, Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families (2017), explores the experiences of seeking legal status. The chapters follow the process, rooted in ethnographic research. The book is accessible. I used this book in a first-year undergraduate course […]
Labor and Legality
I spent much of the summer looking for good ethnographies that would be suitable for first year undergraduate students – essentially a book that is not written for anthropologists, not heavy with theory, while still presenting the value that ethnography can offer. Gomberg-Munoz’s Labor and Legality (2011) fit that well. The book also provides insight […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Mexico #Migration #United States
Ethiopian Migration to the Middle East and South Africa
There are reports of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian women working in the Middle East, and stories of dangerous travel across the continent of those trying to reach South Africa. However, little is known about the actual trends, policies, and pushes/pulls. A 2015 publication by the Ethiopian Forum for Social Studies addressed this topic in […]
Tags: #East Africa #Ethiopia #Forum for Social Studies #International migration #Migration
How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Open doors or build walls? Immigration is one of the most politicized issues. Thus, the value of the book by Goldin, Cameron and Balarajan (2011): “Exceptional People – How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future”. Before delving into the detail, this book was likely written for an undergraduate audience – those moderately […]
Tags: #Citizenship #Development #Exceptional People #Immigration #Migration #Policy
How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Open doors or build walls? Immigration is one of the most politicized issues. Thus, the value of the book by Goldin, Cameron and Balarajan (2011): “Exceptional People – How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future”. Before delving into the detail, this book was likely written for an undergraduate audience – those moderately […]
Tags: #Citizenship #Development #Exceptional People #Immigration #Migration #Policy
Post-doc: Migration and the humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too […]
Tags: #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Morals #Representation
Post-doc: Comparative Global Humanities (Tufts)
2017-2018 Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Global Humanities The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University (CHAT) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 1, 2017. The fellows will be in residence at the Center, and participate in a research seminar on themes in Comparative Global Humanities, a project that […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Capitalism #Colonialism #Humanities #Migration
Postdoc: Migration & the Humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. The current refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East has made it clear that migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the […]
Tags: #Harvard #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Refugee Crisis
PhD and Postdocs (6): Racialized Lives of Migrants
The Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa) invites applications for up to six Post-Doctoral Research positions in the project The Colour of Labour: The Racialized Lives of Migrants (ERC Advanced Grant # 695573 – COLOUR), led by Cristiana Bastos. The multi-track, multi-disciplinary project COLOUR […]
Tags: #Colonialism #Labour #Migrants #Migration #Racialized Lives
Post-doc: Migration & Health (Singapore)
Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), invites applications for TWO Postdoctoral Fellows to work on a research project entitled CHILD HEALTH AND MIGRANT PARENTS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA (CHAMPSEA): WAVE II. Both positions will be based in Singapore. AREA OF EXPERTISE The successful candidate will be someone who holds a PhD degree (or […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Development Studies #Geography #Health #Migration
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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