Simon Turner

#09 | Helping Each Other: Refugees in and Around Tanzanian Camps

🎙🇹🇿 How do local acts of help reshape refugee support beyond the confines of the camps? Find out the answer to this and other questions in our newest #EHTZ #Podcast episode with @simonturneranthro.bsky.social and Dr. Yvette Ruzibiza.

open.spotify.com/episode/5fBh...

Refugees and preppers: Anticipatory practices in the face of uncertain futures Abstract. In this paper we suggest that attention to the social practice of prepping, with its particular focus on how people navigate uncertain and potent

Very excited to see our new article out in @migrationjrnl.bsky.social!
With @simonturneranthro.bsky.social:
"Refugees and preppers: Anticipatory practices in the face of uncertain futures"

Refugees and preppers: Anticipatory practices in the face of uncertain futures Abstract. In this paper we suggest that attention to the social practice of prepping, with its particular focus on how people navigate uncertain and potent

Thanks to Anja Franck for suggesting the connection between refugees and preppers. Refugees and preppers: Anticipatory practices in the face of uncertain futures url: academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Call for Proposals for Special Issues The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is accepting proposals for special issues. JRS is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original, high-quality research related

looking forward to seeing inspiring and innovative proposals in what usually is a very competitive field.
academic.oup.com/jrs/pages/ca...

ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD Scholarships on Evacuations | UNSW Sydney UNSW Law & Justice offers two PhD scholarships for researchers who are part of the Evacuations Research Hub . Join our community of scholars today.

We’re looking for outstanding PhD candidates to study with us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social! You must have a demonstrated interest in disaster law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, or diplomatic and consular law. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

Did you remember to bring traveller's cheques?

Deadline for paper submissions extended to 20th Dec. Please consider submitting to our panel 'The flipside of disinformation in the Afropean: Information suppression in African autocracies and their diasporas' in the 'Politics and International Relations' stream.
guarant.eu/ecasconferen...

Democracies must adapt in the age of disinformation – The Mail & Guardian Democracy’s advantages must be articulated in the face of false information but delivering benefits is the best way to secure democratic governance

The Sahel region is a showcase of the ways disinformation can destabilize fragile democracies, presenting authoritarianism as a simple response to complex problems.

But the track record of authoritarianism in Africa shows otherwise.

mg.co.za/thought-lea...

Humanitarian responses in Tanzania are shaped by public perceptions of deservingness, with citizens often inclined to help those recognized as legitimate recipients of aid by government or community leaders. Read more in our policy brief at www.everydayhumanitarianismintanzania.org/reports
#EHTZ

Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency - Comparative Migration Studies Containment, as a way of restricting mobilities, ranges from physical infrastructures to diffused control practices in everyday life. Alongside their physical, social, and political dimensions, such r...

New article 'Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency' just published. Containment, which restricts mobilities, ranges from physical infrastructures to diffused everyday-life control practices 1/3
comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10....

@obsqueer.bsky.social @anthroprofhage.bsky.social @kudavan.bsky.social

Cheers. What a great list. Did you add @jorgencarling.bsky.social @myrmek.bsky.social

and me :)

Trump certainly takes up a lot of space. But I wonder whether it is also because the ICC indictment is also uncomfortable news in the US?

The deadline for the Bronislaw #Malinowski Award is Dec. 15. #SfAA presents the Award to a social scientist who has demonstrated a commitment to understanding & addressing the needs of global societies. www.appliedanthro.org/about/awards...
#socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2025

Precarious Care across Migrant Generations in Tanzania Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article is concerned with how undocumented refugees and migrants use invisibility strategies to navigate a hostile host environment in Western Tanzania. This arti...

www.mdpi.com/2927652

Great work on the history of Western Tanzania using the Marxist concept of alienation. www.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

Refugee Shelter: Why Autonomy Matters Most What are the options for any government seeking to house new refugees? Surveying examples from activist-run squats in Athens to huge refugee camps in Jordan, Tom Scott-Smith looks at what works – a…

If you can't make it, Tom Scott-Smith wrote a blog for LSE Inequalities drawing on the book, you can read it here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

We made it to the Tanzanian national news! ITV, one of the country’s leading private broadcasters, covered our research dissemination event in Dar es Salaam, capturing key moments and insightful discussions. Watch the clip now on YouTube (start in minute 6).

www.youtube.com/live/_mZoRQQ...

#EHTZ