Heike Drotbohm
Heike Drotbohm is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Research has focused on spiritual belonging (Haiti, Canada) as well as the intersection between immobility, kinship, and care (Cape Verde). More recently, she has followed migrant trajectories in urban and cross-border spaces (in Brazil and Central America) and has explored configurations of care and control in solidarity and humanitarian contexts. Publications have appeared in Ethnography, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Humanity, Focaal and various co-editions. She was a fellow at the research center “Work and the Life Course in Global History” (HU Berlin) and at the New School for Social Research (New York).
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Drotbohm, Heike 2022: O Cuidado Além do Reparo. Mana. Estudos de Antropologia Social. Vol. 28 (2). Link: https://www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/D4JyPrSY85YCP49SXY5DTFx/?lang=pt
Drotbohm, Heike 2021: ‘Not a cozy dwelling’. Exploring aspirational anxieties and politics of displacement in São Paulo’s squats. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 12 (3): 354 – 367. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845688
Drotbohm, Heike and Nanneke Winters 2020: Exploring the eventfulness of migrant categorization across the Americas. Andrea Lobo and Igor Machado (eds.) Special issue “Fluxos, circulações e seus contrários: perspectivas etnográficas e os desafios teórico-metodológicos”. Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. Vol. 17. Link: https://www.scielo.br/j/vb/a/Rn4VrptsQMjXDhkygKzC85k/?lang=en
Drotbohm, Heike 2018: Care and Reunification in a Cape Verdean family: Changing articulations of family and legal ties. Ethnography. Vol. 21 (1): 48 – 70, DOI: 10.1177/1466138118774071. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1466138118774071
Drotbohm, Heike 2016: Celebrating Asymmetries. Creole stratification and the regrounding of home in Cape Verdean migrant return visits. In: Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl (eds.) 2016: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. Oxford, New York: Berghahn: 135 – 156. Link: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KnoerrUpper
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