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Apostolos Andrikopoulos

@andrikopoulos.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, University College London; Author of ARGONAUTS OF WEST AFRICA: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (he/him)

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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you’re in London this Thursday, you’re very welcome to join us for a talk by @tunayaltay.bsky.social on migrant drag performers in Germany.
ucl.ac.uk
Performing Politics: Drag, Queer Migration, and the Aesthetics of Postmigrant Survival
This talk explores migrant drag as a queer world-making practice amid rising anti-migrant and anti-trans politics.
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🔔🔔 New Publication Alert Check out Jaeeun Kim's and Apostolos Andrikopoulos's (@andrikopoulos.bsky.social) paper titled Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking "Fraud" in the Study of Migration, published in International Migration Review.
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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In Memoriam: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (1948–2025). AfAA mourns the loss of a pioneering scholar of African religious movements and expressive culture. Read the obituary by her longtime friend and collaborator, J.R. Osborn, on our website.
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In Memoriam: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (1948 – 2025)
Written by J.R. Osborn A powerful and wonderful spirit, Bennetta Jules Rosette passed away on Sunday 7 December, 2025 at her home in Encinitas, California. Bennetta was a passionate academic with an i...
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Out now: my new article with Jaeeun Kim in International Migration Review. We propose and theorize Unauthorized Identity Craft as a better alternative to “fraud” in migration studies. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A great loss, he will be deeply missed..
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Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#IMISCOE2025 here i come! Armed with water bottles and a fan. Let me know which panels i shouldn't miss!! I'll be presenting the introduction to our special issue on same sex marriage migration with @andrikopoulos.bsky.social and hosting a panel on family reunification politics with Gina Longo.
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Αυτή την Πέμπτη (10/4) θα είμαι στη Θεσσαλονίκη για να παρουσιάσω το βιβλίο μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (13:00–15:00, Αμφ. 7). Θα χαρώ πολύ να δω φίλους, παλιούς συμφοιτητές και όποιον άλλο ενδιαφέρεται!
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Uroš Kovač @uroskovac.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank you to @scmrjems.bsky.social for publishing my perspectives on migration brokerage, human trafficking, and racialization in football. It has been a long time in the making! @rcsunigroningen.bsky.social @fifpro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The promise of empowerment: football migration brokerage between west Africa and Europe
Since the 1990s, west African young men have increasingly aspired to migrate through football, i.e. to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Key figures in their migration pro...
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Ulrike Bialas @ulrikebialas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So grateful to Apostolos for his thoughtful (and critical!) engagement with my book. My response will be published soon.
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My engagement with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social ' s must-read book on the experiences of young asylum seekers claiming protection as minors in Germany - a daring and sensitive ethnography that offers unique insights into the consequences of age classifications and their often unexpected outcomes.
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
RIP Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Today, the world feels like a smaller place without you. A brilliant mind, a model of an engaged anthropologist, and, most of all, a genuinely kind and caring person. You will be deeply missed.
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Join us again in congratulating Apostolos Andrikopoulos on receiving an honorable mention for the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology for his book Argonauts of West Africa, which also won the Elliot Skinner Book Prize Award at #AAA2024!
Text: William A. Douglass Prize Honorable Mention.
Book cover: Argonauts of West Africa.
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos @andrikopoulos.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So honored to share that my book #ArgonautsOfWestAfrica received the 2024 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award the Association for Africanist Anthropology #AAA2024Tampa
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Resto Cruz @restocruz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How about a kinship studies starter pack? Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share! Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social
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