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Victoria Kumala Sakti stands on Wilhelmsplatz in Göttingen, with a park in the background.

Victoria Kumala Sakti on “Ageing in displacement”

Video July 26, 2024

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 stands in the library hall of the MPI-MMG.

Megha Amrith on “Ageing Across Borders”

Video July 15, 2023

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

“Into a retirement home - unthinkable there” ["Ins Altersheim – dort undenkbar"]

conducted by Joris Ufer, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
[in German] Swetlana Torno researches the lives of older people in Central Asia. The experienced generations have a higher status there. more

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Loretta Baldassar is standing in front of a window.

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

Poster showing an infographic with an old couple

Who Cares for Older Refugees? An East Timorese Healthcare Worker’s Mission

August 07, 2024

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

Muzaffar, a 69 years old man, in front of his friend’s minibus in Tajikistan

‘I am in Dushanbe now, selling apples at the market.’ Contemplating ageing and (im)mobilities in rural Tajikistan

July 16, 2024

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

Elderly women from East Timor at a Sunday service in the former Naibonat refugee camp in Kupang, West Timor

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

Abstract background with the lettering EASA Network of Ethnographic Theory

Guest reading list on 'Care'

April 15, 2019

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