Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Situating the migration industry: governance, capital accumulation and global dehumanization: an introduction

To introduce this Special Issue, we begin by asking whether we are currently traversing a new phase of the migration industry. These transformations are characterized by the complete enmeshing of profit-making activities with the not-for-profit sector and by the state becoming an...

Quasi-exile as a condition: ‘Rùn’ from a post-COVID-19 China

This article introduces quasi-exile as a condition of displacement, where the act of leaving one’s country of origin takes precedence over the desire to arrive at a specific destination. Departing from rùn – a viral term for migration that emerged amid China's post-pandemic uncer...