Publications

Journal Article (15)

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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2023. Cultures of unwelcome: understanding the everyday histories of exclusionary practices; a view from across the German border. International Migration 61(3): 72–86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13019.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2022. Deciphering everyday meaning-making with Gramsci. Dialectical Anthropology 46: 395–415. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09658-5.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2020. Phenomenology of exclusion: capturing the everyday thresholds of belonging. Social Inclusion 8(4): 116–125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3282.
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Journal Article
Chase, Elaine, Laura Otto, Milena Belloni, Annika Lems, and Ulrika Wernesjö. 2020. Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(2): 457–473. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1584705.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2020. Being inside out: the slippery slope between inclusion and exclusion in a Swiss educational project for unaccompanied refugee youth. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(2): 405–422. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1584702.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika, Kathrin Oester, and Sabine Strasser. 2020. Children of the crisis: ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(2): 315–335. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1584697.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2019. Grammars of precarity. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 27(S2): 97–117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12695.
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Journal Article
Tošić, Jelena and Annika Lems. 2019. Introduction: African-European trajectories of im/mobility; exploring entanglements of experiences, legacies, and regimes of contemporary migration. Migration and Society 2(1): 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2019.020102.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2019. Existential kinetics of movement and stasis: young Eritrean refugees' thwarted hopes of movement-through-education. Suomen Antropologi 44(2): 59–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i2.77715.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika and Jelena Tošić . 2019. Preface: stuck in motion? Capturing the dialectics of movement and stasis in an era of containment. Suomen Antropologi 44(2): 3–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i2.77714.
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Journal Article
Oester, Kathrin and Annika Lems. 2017. Zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion: zur Bildungssituation unbegleiteter jugendlicher Asylsuchender. vpod bildungspolitik (203): 6–8.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2016. Ambiguous longings: nostalgia as the interplay among self, time and world. Critique of Anthropology 36(4): 419–438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16654549.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika. 2016. Placing displacement: place-making in a world of movement. Ethnos 81(2): 315–337. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2014.931328.
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Journal Article
Lems, Annika, Sandy Gifford, and Raelene Wilding. 2016. New myths of OZ: the Australian beach and the negotiation of national belonging by refugee background youth. Continuum 30(1): 32–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2015.1117572.
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Journal Article
Neumann, Klaus, Sandra M. Gifford, Annika Lems, and Stefanie Scherr. 2014. Refugee settlement in Australia: policy, scholarship and the production of knowledge, 1952 -2013. Journal of Intercultural Studies 35(1): 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2013.864629.

Book Chapter (4)

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Book Chapter
Lems, Annika and Tabea Scharrer. 2023. Ethnologie. In: Tabea Scharrer, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist, and Marcel Berlinghoff (eds.). Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Handbuch. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 77–86.
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Book Chapter
Oester, Kathrin and Annika Lems. 2019. Recht auf Bildung?: unbegleitete Minderjährige zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion. In: Anja Sieber Egger, Gisela Unterweger, Marianna Jäger, Melanie Kuhn, and Judith Hangartner (eds.). Kindheit(en) in formalen, nonformalen und informellen Bildungskontexten: ethnografische Beiträge aus der Schweiz. 1. ed. Kinder, Kindheiten und Kindheitsforschung 20. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 239–258.
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Book Chapter
Lems, Annika. 2017. Mobile temporalities: place, ruination and the dialectics of time. In: Monika Palmberger and Jelena Tošić (eds.). Memories on the move: experiencing mobility, rethinking the past. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127–156.
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Book Chapter
Lems, Annika and Christine Moderbacher. 2016. On being stuck in the wrong life: homelonging, movement and the pain of existential immobility. In: Miriam Gutekunst, Andreas Hackl, Sabina Leoncini, Julia Sophia Schwarz, and Irene Götz (eds.). Bounded mobilities: ethnographic perspectives on social hierarchies and global inequalities. 1. ed. Culture and Social Practice. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 113–128.

Report (1)

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Report
Mikuš, Marek, Annika Lems, and Carolin Görzig (eds.). 2020. Report 2017-2019: Emmy Noether Research Group 'Peripheral Debt'; Max Planck Research Group 'Alpine Historiesof Global Change'; Max Planck Research Group 'How ‘Terrorists’ Learn'. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2017-2019. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Issue (3)

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Issue
Lems, Annika, Kathrin Oester, and Sabine Strasser (eds.). 2020. Children of the crisis: ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(2).
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Issue
Lems, Annika and Jelena Tošić (eds.). 2019. Special section: African-European trajectories of im/mobility; exploring entanglements of experiences, legacies, and regimes of contemporary migration. Migration and Society 2(1).
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Issue
Tošić, Jelena and Annika Lems (eds.). 2019. Stuck in motion: existential perspectives on movement and stasis in an age of containment. Suomen Antropologi 44(2).

Other (2)

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Other
Lems, A. 2021. Entfremdungsprozesse verstehen. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2021. https://www.eth.mpg.de/6107720/research_report_18028334?c=2923387.
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Other
Lems, Annika. 2020. The (im)possibility of ethnographic research during Corona. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/5478478/news-2020-06-11-01.

Newspaper Article (3)

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Newspaper Article
Lems, Annika. 2014. A country big enough to disappear in. Inside Story, May 27, 2014.
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Newspaper Article
Lems, Annika. 2011. Beyond the easy life of gods. Inside Story, July 12, 2011.
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Newspaper Article
Lems, Annika. 2009. The Mediterranean solution. Inside Story, February 10, 2009.

Book Review (9)

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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2022. Finding ways through eurospace: West African movers re-viewing Europe from the inside; Joris Schapendonk. 2020. New York: Berghahn. 230 pages. Migration and Society 5(1): 161–163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2022.050115.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2021. Jackson, Michael D.: critique of identity thinking. 207 pp. New York, London: Berghan, 2019. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 145(1): 153–155.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2020. Matthäus Rest and Gertraud Seiser (eds) (2016), Wild und Schön: Der Krampus im Salzburger Land (Wien: LIT Verlag). Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 29(1): 113–115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290107.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2019. Placeless people: writing, rights, and refugees. By Lyndsey Stonebridge. Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pages. Journal of Refugee Studies 32(3): 525–527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez016.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika and Paul Reade. 2018. Lettre à Mohamed by Christine Moderbacher. Sixpackfilm, 2013. 35 min. Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia 2(1): 121–123.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2016. Making refuge: Somali Bantu refugees and Lewiston, Maine by Catherine Besteman. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 352. Society and Space.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2016. Existence in the details: theory and methodology in existential anthropology by Albert Piette. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2015. Pp. 119. Ethos 44(3): E10–E11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12129.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2016. What is existential anthropology? edited by Michael D. Jackson and Albert Piette. New York: Berghahn, 2015. Pp. 254. Anthropology and Humanism 41(1): 121–122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12111.
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Book Review
Lems, Annika. 2014. I did it to save my life: love and survival in Sierra Leone by Catherine Bolten. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. 296. Social Anthropology 22(4): 491–492. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12092_5.

Collected Edition (1)

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Collected Edition
Lems, Annika, Kathrin Oester, and Sabine Strasser (eds.). 2022. Children of the crisis: ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe. Research on Ethnic and Migration Studies. London; New York: Routledge.

Monograph (2)

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Monograph
Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of belonging: the education of unaccompanied refugee youth. Worlds in crisis: refugees, asylum, and forced migration. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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Monograph
Lems, Annika. 2018. Being-here: placemaking in a world of movement. 1. ed. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Film (2)

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Film
Lems, Annika. 2023. Frontiers of belonging: the education of unaccompanied refugee youth. Read On.
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Film
Lems, Annika and Christine Moderbacher. 2008. Harraga. 48 min.

Blog Post (5)

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Blog Post
Lems, Annika, Jelena Tošić, and Sabine Strasser. 2021. A few words from the EASA Book Series editors. AJEC Blog. http://ajecblog.berghahnjournals.com/a-few-words-from-the-easa-book-series-editors/.
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Blog Post
Berger, Antje, Annika Lems, and Christine Moderbacher. 2020. Anthropological engagements with the far-right. EASA Network of Ethnographic Theory. https://networkofethnographictheory.wordpress.com/anthropological-engagements-with-the-far-right/.
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Blog Post
Drotbohm, Heike and Annika Lems. 2018. Introduction: displacement and new sociabilities. Allegra Laboratory. http://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-displacement-and-new-sociabilities/.
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Blog Post
Lems, Annika. 2018. On being made feel out of place. Allegra Laboratory. http://allegralaboratory.net/on-being-made-feel-out-of-place-displacement/.
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Blog Post
Lems, Annika. 2017. How to write about precarity from a precarious position. Allegra Laboratory. http://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-write-about-precarity-from-a-precarious-position/.
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