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I am an economic sociologist, interested in human mobilities, climate change, and ethnographies and my own book will be published with Oxford University Press in spring 2025. Currently, I am a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies which focuses on political economy and economic sociology.
Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are a…
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it r…
A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens…
R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and t…
Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis Nairobi, known as the Green City in the…
This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conce…
One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of…
In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national …
As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance indus…
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet an…
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in…