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Stefan Millar

@stefanmillar.bsky.social
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🇮🇪 🍉 Anthropologist with interest in #migration the #state and #colonialism in East African refugee camps.

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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Apparently, my blog recent post blog has already upset some people at the Kakuma UNHCR office (mission accomplished). Essentially, I point out how their work, lives, and policies are devoid of any refugee voices, and their outlook is very colonial. Read it here: blogs.helsinki.fi/vital-infras...
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Humanitarian Infrastructures at the End of Aid – Stefan Millar – Vital Infrastructures
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Everyday State & Democracy in Africa, ed. Wale Adebanwi, now open access. Includes my chapter 'Disputing Democracy & Challenging the State in Mozambique' based on fieldwork around the 2013-16 insurgency. (Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.) ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/
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Everyday State and Democracy in Africa : Ethnographic Encounters
Bottom-up case studies, drawn from the perspective of ordinary Africans’ experiences with state bureaucracies, structures, and services, reveal how citizens and states define each other.This volume ex...
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ready-to-assemble humanitarianism, will they serve meat balls at food distribution? Unlikely, but let get business tycoons in who will retain a top-down neocolonial strategy. What happened to letting "refugees lead"? www.ft.com/content/915a...
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Sweden backs Ikea boss to lead UN refugee agency
Jesper Brodin nominated by centre-right government after eight years in charge of furniture giant
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My article on communal future-makibg and their corresponding logics of containment is finally out! The paper explores the various logics of containment at play in Kakuma Refugee Camp during the covid pandemic. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya - Comparative Migration Studies
Anthropological literature on future-making has highlighted the diversity of practices migrants’ can enact to realise their possible future or future-orientated projects. While such an approach has be...
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
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Gazan sota | Yli 700 työntekijää vaatii Helsingin yliopistoa lopettamaan yhteistyön Israelin yliopistojen kanssa
740:n allekirjoittajan joukossa on myös julkisuudesta tunnettuja asiantuntijoita.
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Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Out now! 'Hard Work' by @tutam.bsky.social explores human-environmental relations, value production, and state formation in the context of large-scale natural resource extraction in #PapuaNewGuinea. The book is available in #openaccess at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29 #anthropology #ethnography🏺
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Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New article 'Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger' by Laura Lambert in our paper cluster 'Future-making in Situations of Containment' edited by Laura, @stefanmillar.bsky.social, Mert Pekşen, @vvlaakkonen.bsky.social & me
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Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger - Comparative Migration Studies
Resettlement is a safe pathway to the Global North, but only few refugees in the Global South receive it. This article argues that beyond being a highly selective durable solution, resettlement can al...
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kenya: "Following recent aid freezes and budget cuts for humanitarian assistance... the impact on our country's ability to host refugees and asylum seekers which number over 800,000 people, has been sudden and severe," the CS [Cabinet Sec] noted." www.kenyans.co.ke/news/109572-...
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CS Murkomen Speaks After Refugee Protests in Kakuma
On Monday, the protests turned chaotic as police officers tried to disperse the refugees leaving others nursing injuries.
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kenyan police has shot and wounded peaceful protestors outside the #UNHCR compound in #Kakuma. I have also received reports that some protestors have been forcefully disappeared over night.
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Jennifer Long, PhD @jennlong3.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We've got 5 days before paper abstracts are due for the Finnish Anthropological Society's Conference in June 2025 - Check out our and others' call for papers: blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...
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Call for Papers – COMPARISONS – Helsinki 2025
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon! brill.com/display/titl...
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Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Apr 2025 by Brill.
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Simon Turner @simonturneranthro.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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...
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Call for Papers - ECAS 2025
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The gold rush at the heart of a civil war: Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight, reports The New York Times. Uganda is a key player…”a country widely seen as a major hub for smuggled African gold”…/A
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The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War
Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight.
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Last month, Majok Lam Thoan and I presented our ongoing collaborative paper 'Mimicry in the Migration Regime' at MacEwan University. We explore how #resettlement creates a neo #colonial relationship between refugees and the governing agencies.
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Mimicry in the Migration Regime Urbanization, Resistance and Resettlement from Kakuma to Edmonton 20
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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Here at the African Studies meeting we stopped by the Indiana University Press booth. Always so great to see your book for sale and hear people say good things about it!
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
After suppressing the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (1952–1960) British Military tactics and officers were brought "home" to suppress Irish Republican Army (1960 - 1998) in Northern Ireland. But Sakai notes, the brutality was less severe, but made cladestine. www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/Op...
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@jennlong3.bsky.social and I have a panel at the next Finnish Anthropological Society’s conference titled: Imagining Resettlement: Disillusionment and the Paradox of Comparison. The call for papers closes on 15th January 2025. blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...
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Call for Papers – COMPARISONS – Helsinki 2025
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Ireland’s smaller centre-left parties contemplate going into government with Fianna Fáil and/or Fine Gael. #GE24
The “but it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development.
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O'Reilly @oreilly1.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Glen Moore, who got slapped around by the kids in St. Aidans in Dublin West has amassed a whopping 3% of the vote. Back under your rock, lad... #ge24 #speirgorm
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Joe Leogue @joeleogue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Irish Times exit poll shows immigration was the most important issue for six per cent of voters, climate most important for four per cent. Two issues within the margin of error of each other, but one received a disproportionate amount of coverage while the other was barely mentioned. #ge24
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Stefan Millar @stefanmillar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Really proud of our #SouthSudanese brother Joesph Lual Ajak after his graduation in mechanical engineering from University of Alberta @ualberta.bsky.social. Back in 2018 when I had first met Joesph, he had just received a scholarship from Windle Trust while living in #Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
So glad to see this important article published!
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Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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....
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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...
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