After two long days on the bus, I arrived in Sumbawanga in the beginning of February 2014,
the rainy season well underway. The next day, I reported to the Mawingu Regional Hospital …

Since 2016, many German citizens have participated in so-called 'buddy schemes' in which
volunteers provide personalised support to refugees to help them build their new lives in …

In Spain, the national and local authorities boast in recent years about their progressive
programs for the integration of Roma migrants from Romania. Many state efforts to work with …

Purpose This review and theoretical analysis paper aims to bring together literatures of
place, mobility, refugees and mental health to problematise the ways in which social support …

Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of
senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large …

In this article, we examine the ways that elderly care generates political belonging. Our
approach builds on studies which argue that nurture and care create kinship, but takes that …

Summary The Process of Wellbeing develops an anthropological perspective on wellbeing
as an intersubjective process that can be approached through the prism of three …

This article argues that a population of relatively affluent retired people in a small Irish town
have employed the possibilities of grandparenting to resolve many of the tensions of …

This article explores how migrant mothering kin work challenges private and public
boundaries, giving rise to new conceptions and practices of citizenship. We highlight the …

Based on fieldwork in maternity wards in Tanzania, I argue that the partograph–a graphical
representation of a pregnant woman's labor–far exceeds its intended role as tracking and …