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<span><span>Victoria Kumala Sakti on </span></span>“<span><span>Ageing in displacement</span></span>”

Victoria Kumala Sakti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Research Group, “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, since May 2018.  more

Megha Amrith on “Ageing Across Borders”

Megha Amrith is the leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at MPI-MMG. Her research focuses on migrant labor, care, ageing, inequalities, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives.  more

Interviews

Interview with Loretta Baldassar (The University of Western Australia)

conducted by the Max Planck Research Group "Ageing in a Time of Mobility", September 2019

Professor Loretta Baldassar is a migration scholar and researcher with interests in transnational families… more

Interview with Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna)

conducted by Victoria K. Sakti, July 2019

Monika Palmberger is research fellow and lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and research fellow at the… more

Interview with Kay Abaño (Visual Artist)

conducted by Megha Amrith, June 2019

Kay Abaño is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her photography and filmmaking are centered around themes of migration, borders, movement and change. Read more… more

Interview with Aija Lulle (Loughborough University)

conducted by Megha Amrith, May 2019

Aija Lulle is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests are clustered around migration experiences and migrants’… more

Interview with Kristin Yarris (University of Oregon)

conducted by Dora Sampaio, October 2018

Kristin Elizabeth Yarris is an Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also co-directs the Center for Global Health… more

Pieces published on external blogs/websites

Who Cares for Older Refugees? An East Timorese Healthcare Worker’s Mission
by Victoria Kumala Sakti  American Ethnologist website
Fidelis Soares (not his real name) worked as a healthcare nurse at a community health center situated on the outskirts of Kupang, Indonesia. He oversaw the day clinic for senior citizens known as the 
Lansia clinic, named after the Indonesian abbreviation for “people with advanced age” or orang lajut usia. more
‘I am in Dushanbe now, selling apples at the market.’ Contemplating ageing and (im)mobilities in rural Tajikistan
by Swetlana Torno • ifl.blog
‘How are you doing, Farishta? Is everything fine? Are you in good health?’ asked the voice on the phone, instantly projecting an image of a smiling face and kind eyes wrapped in wrinkles to my inner eye. ‘I am in Dushanbe now, selling apples at the market (bozor) in Giprozem. When can we meet?’ more
The invisible diaspora

The invisible diaspora

February 09, 2021
by Victoria Kumala Sakti  südostasien
(in German)
Older people are among the most vulnerable and often invisible groups of displaced persons. Their age-specific needs receive less media and political attention than those of younger generations. There is increasing research on older refugees. However, literature on displacement and diasporic experiences of this population group in the Global South is scarce. more
Guest reading list on 'Care'
by Megha Amrith • Network of Ethnographic Theory blog
If care is in some way fundamental to understanding how we relate to one other and the world around us, then it has always been intrinsically a part of the anthropological endeavor. Yet it is only recently that we are starting to work through what an “anthropology of care” might look like. more


Blogs

Megha Amrith

Megha Amrith

April 29, 2020

Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers Identities COVID-19 Blog Series
Blog | April 2020 more

Dora Sampaio

‘Boa viagem’ (or ‘visa trips’): on migration, separation, and faith
Blog | December 2019 more

Megha Amrith

Waiting for Sundays. Fieldwork reflections
Blog | October 2019 more

Megha Amrith and Dora Sampaio

Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ Exhibition
Blog | July 2019 more

Megha Amrith

Ageing in a Time of Mobility: An Introduction
Blog | December 2018
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Dora Sampaio

(Im)mobilities of transnational ageing care: negotiating separation, solidarity and conflict within Brazilian families Blog | December 2018 more

Victoria K. Sakti

Portraits of Ageing in Displacement: East Timorese Diasporas in Indonesia
Blog | December 2018
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Nele Wolter

Constructing Livelihoods: Older Cameroonians in Times of Mobility
Blog | December 2018
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Megha Amrith

Ageing Bodies: Retiring from Temporary Lives
Blog | December 2018
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Online Lectures

"Without technology we’d be very stuck”: Ageing migrants’ comobility capital in pandemic times

Earvin Cabalquinto (Deakin University)

MPI-MMG, 27 May 2021

“Ageing and Mobility: Care, Generations, and Citizenship beyond the Views of the West”

Sarah LAMB (Brandeis University)

MPI-MMG, 23 October 2018

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