Conference topic: Panel no. 35 - Time, (Im)Mobility and Vulnerability

As an ethnographer dealing with migration and reflecting state effect’s notions by those who moved from Poland after it’s EU accession in 2004 , I’m sensitive about Public Culture’s actors rationalisations of demographic and migration phenomena and resulting policies. These...

Graduates of doctoral studies face hard choice regarding their future. Those wishing to continue career inside academia usually need to apply on postdoctoral researcher positions to many universities or research institutes. Given that there are few positions opened each year,...

Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork in Serbia in 2015 and 2016 and in migrant destinations countries in 2017, this paper aims to analyze the intertwined relations between hope, waiting and mobility. Migrants flee violence, terror, poverty, and social injustice, but...

In many societies in the world, women are perceived as vulnerable, they are not in the public spaces and their voices are completely absent from the political system. Not only in society itself, but the mobility of women is also...

Irish Travellers, as their name might suggest, are regularly portrayed as a mobile group par-excellence. Although their cultural identity is founded on a history of mobility, the Traveller family I researched made concerted efforts to fight eviction and remain in...

Currently doing a thesis in anthropology at the Lyon2 University on the interactions stakes between military doctor and military patient which developed an operational disability of psychological origin, I have already carried out a first ethnography with a French military...

In the post-communist Romania, peculiar looking houses came to be constructed. People began calling them as “castel (castle)” of the Roma. They are the houses of the Căldărari Roma, who had led nomadic lives dealing with metals but were deported...

On February 29, 2020, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to institute fare-free public transportation, a policy hailed as a step toward equalizing access to mobility. While the measure allows transit users to save money, the amount of...

EU migrants in Sweden have been considered a non-problematic group, as “free moving”, taking care of their welfare with paid labour, and eventually returning to their home countries. However, many migrants from EU countries develop strong bonds to Sweden and...