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Project

Exiled and separated: a multi-sited ethnography of Eritrean refugees and their families attempting to reunite.

Most European states allow refugees to access a facilitated procedure to reunify with their family members. Many studies, however, high-light how issues of timing, documentation and economic resources often make family reunions extremely difficult, if not impossible. If much has been written on the obstacles faced migrants in this regard, little is known about the specific case of refugees. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study with refugees and their families, this project aims to reconstruct the complexity of power-relations, social expectations and structural impediments that impact on refugees' right to family life.
Date:1 Feb 2020 →  31 Jan 2024
Keywords:ETHNOGRAPHY, REFUGEES, TRANSNATIONAL MARRIAGES, BUREAUCRACY
Disciplines:Sociology of development, Applied sociology not elsewhere classified, Population trends and policies, Social geography, Ethnicity and migration studies, Political and legal anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Race and ethnic relations, Sociology of law