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Questioning the French Creuset: Studying Migration, Marginal Populations, and Settler Ethnic Difference in the Archives
By Graduate Student Daniela Edmeier, Department of History To say that France has a complicated history with ethnic difference would be an understatement. Pick up any historical publication on…
Kapka Kassabova: Understanding across Borders and Cultures
Kapka Kassabova will visit Ohio State and discuss her book, Border, during the Moving Subjects Week. Internationally recognized, award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Kapka Kassabova…
From Rural to Urban Space: The indigenous Amazonian Matses Community’s Use of Spanish in Iquitos
By Graduate Student Paloma Pinillos Chavez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Thanks to the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project’s support, I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to…
Interview with Novelist and Poet Marica Bodrožić
The following post is a description of a video interview recorded on August 30, 2019 in May Mergenthaler's German 3102 course. The post is written by May Mergenthaler, assistant professor in…
The Helvécia Community of Brazil
By Graduate Student Luana Lamberti Nunes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese My research took place in Helvécia (Bahia) for about a month. The community of Helvécia is an officially-recognized…
Learning from the Archives of African-American Women’s Travels to State Socialist Countries, 1920-1980
By Graduate Student Tatsiana Shchurko, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project supported my research trip to Atlanta,…
Making Space for Refugees: Regimes of Mobility and Immobility in Turkey
By Lecturer Danielle V. Schoon, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures In 2016, the European Union and Turkey implemented an agreement to regulate ‘irregular migration’ from the…
Sociolinguistics and the Bolivian Migrant Communities of Spain
By Associate Professor Anna Babel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project helped fund an exploratory research trip to Barcelona to build…
Borders in Motion Symposium (March 28-29, 2019)
The idea behind the symposium was to think together about the work and meanings that borders perform in the world and to combine scholarly reflections on mobility with artistic performance,…