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As the negotiations between the UK and Mauritius about the future of the Chagos Islands continue, displaced Chagos Islanders have found that mentions of their birthplace or their parents’ identities become erased in new passports and birth certificates. theguardian.com/global-develop…

The underwater cables that sustain the modern internet depend on the crews of just 22 repair ships around the world, a small essencial workforce that the telco industry often overlooks. theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

Over the past few years, the share of non-American migrants among those crossing irregularly from Central America to the US has multiplied almost tenfold, through complex air and land routes departing especially from India and West Africa. reuters.com/investigates/s…

The high number of casualties during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage under harsh temperatures has raised concerns about the travel permit system that grants access to climate sanctuaries, and the increase of unregistered pilgrims. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Once a hub for legal and illegal transnational trade, over the last decade and a half the Ras Jedir border crossing between Tunisia and Libya has experienced disputes over its control, instability and a prolonged closure that could soon come to an end. aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/19…

Recruiting and shaping border enforcement agents relies on socioeconomic mobility gaps and a moral construction of the border that is gendered and racialised. publicbooks.org/from-suspect-t…

The Law & Anthropology Department is offering positions for 4 Doctoral Students (m/f/d) interested in the following topics: asylum law, private law, law and religion, procedural justice recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/497/…

The houses sitting empty for most of the year in Oaș, Romania tell a story of emigration and ever-postponed plans to return that span over three decades and generations. europeanpressprize.com/article/pride-…

The violent eviction of hundreds of Bajau Laut people in Malaysia’s Sabah state, carried out under the premise of security and conservation policies, puts this stateless, semi-nomadic community in an even more precarious situation. scmp.com/news/asia/sout…

Displacement creates layered identities and collective memories, as over the generations the sense of belonging to a historical homeland becomes intertwined with the places and experiences of refugeehood. bostonreview.net/articles/we-ar…

The Gardi Sugdub island in Panama’s San Blas archipelago becomes the first in the country to evacuate its population inland, leaving behind a livelihood linked to the sea in response to climate change. apnews.com/article/panama…

An Oxfam report highlights the systematic violation of workers’ rights – from exploitation and inadequate housing to sexual assault – that migrants endure as seasonal labourers in the European agricultural sector. oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

Medicalized nativism has been a driver in US immigration policymaking for the past century and a half, from the early exclusion acts and the generalization of border quarantines, to Title 42 and its post-pandemic extensions. publicbooks.org/americas-medic…

“Many things in our super-diverse societies today are permeable & in flux, not rigid & closed”: Steven Vertovec, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity @mpimmg, is rethinking diversity mpg.de/21983003/super…

Biometric data collection technologies saw a spurt during the pandemic, but, as the ban on facial recognition tech in Shanghai hotels and other ongoing reforms hint, this spread could be coming to a halt, pushed by an increasingly wary public opinion. sixthtone.com/news/1015062

The Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation is offering a position for a Doctoral Student (m/f/d) for an Urban Anthropology of the Nearby starting as early as possible after 1 September 2024 recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/495/…

For the residents of river islands in the Indian state of Assam, climate change and lacking political responses are turning what used to be exceptional shock evacuations into back-and-forth displacement, as floods become more and more frequent. aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/5…

Ukraine has suspended consular services for all men under 60, a decision that could force to return and potentially send to the front even those who were living abroad before the war or were initially exempted from conscription. france24.com/en/europe/2024…

Funds from the EU and European states consistently sustain the infrastructure of migration control in North African countries including racial profiling, detention without due process, and collective expulsions in deserts and remote areas. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…