Heartbroken about what has happened and what might happen next. No war on Iran. Deescalate now. We are one world— we should be protecting each other and this earth, not tearing it down.
read @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and other anthropologists in this important series of essays for @americananthro.bsky.social
“The current focus on ‘sex’ in sports by the Trump admin is less about biology and more about ideology, and a politics of exclusion and control.”
In 2012 the US government began requiring DNA testing in its Refugee Family Reunification Program, which was primarily used by refugees from African countries. The policy was established to allay concerns that refugees were committing “family-composition fraud,” or including people outside their families in their resettlement and reunification cases. In humanitarian contexts “fraud” has often been understood as resulting from scarcity, corruption, and mistrust, but it misnames practices embedded in distinct moral and social worlds. For Somali communities in Kenya, incorporating nieces, nephews, or unrelated orphans as sons and daughters is part of remaking social worlds in places of refuge. By examining how displaced people grapple with DNA testing, we can see that their practices, sometimes labeled “fraud,” emerge from moral economies of kinship. Moreover, the family emerges as a contested category, one that is essential to the work of the US and global refugee regimes.
📢📢📢 New Article Alert! 📢📢📢
The Fraudulent Family: US refugee admissions, moral economies of kinship, and DNA testing in Africa
by Sophia Balakian @georgemasonu.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
Find it here (Open Access) in AE 52.1: ⬇️
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Canada's "Tackling the Everyday," a predominantly green book, is in the foreground. Behind is a stack of 10 books: Hartman's "Lose Your Mother," Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights," Mariner's "Contingent Kinship," Nash's "Birthing Black Mothers," Sharpe's "In the Wake," Uperesa's "Gridiron Capital," Laymon's "Heavy," Sheppard's "Sporting Blackness," Ralph's "Renegade Dreams," and Browne's "Dark Matters."
today is the day! "Tackling the Everyday" is officially out in the world!
only a few are pictured here, but i'm so thankful to the many thinkers and writers who inspired me during this process ✨✨
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As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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Cuts to Medicaid will devastate poor and disabled people in America. Please call your representative THIS WEEK and tell them you oppose these cuts!
Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.
Based on environmental and reproductive health research. ❤️
My former research assistant has done an amazing project on toxic health harms for returnees, such as those returning to Gaza.
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Cover of The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana
The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader—edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana—is an anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of #anthropology.
Out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
