Publications of Annika Lems

Lems, Annika, Danaé Leitenberg, and Biao Xiang. 2025. Losing one’s place in the world: rethinking alienation as a diagnostic for our time. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 26(5): 761–780. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2025.2549631.

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.

Lems, Annika. 2023. Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging. Mobilities 18(4): 620–634. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2220942.

Lems, Annika. 2023. The stories behind stories: reflections on the role of voice in research with unaccompanied refugee youth. International Migration 61(2): 365–367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13124.

Lems, Annika. 2022. Deciphering everyday meaning-making with Gramsci. Dialectical Anthropology 46: 395–415. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09658-5.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lems, Annika. 2019. Grammars of precarity. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 27(S2): 97–117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12695.

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.

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.

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.

Oester, Kathrin and Annika Lems. 2017. Zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion: zur Bildungssituation unbegleiteter jugendlicher Asylsuchender. vpod bildungspolitik (203): 6–8.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lems, Annika. 2025. About etchings, place acrobatics, and spatial fixes: rethinking the relationship between place, marginality, and mobility. In: Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.). (Un)setteling place: diverse and divergent place-making of people on the move. Worlds in Motion 14. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 218–241.

Lems, Annika. 2024. Im Heimatmuseum. Alpine Geschichten des globalen Wandels: eine Annäherung in fünf Bildskizzen. Brixon: A. Weger, pp. 155–181.

Lems, Annika. 2024. Im Bergdorf: einleitende Worte. Alpine Geschichten des globalen Wandels: eine Annäherung in fünf Bildskizzen. Brixen: A. Weger, pp. 8–26.

Lems, Annika. 2023. Zukunft in der Provinz. Zur Kontinuität anti-kosmopolitischer Vorstellungen in einer österreichischen Berggemeinde. In: Stefan Wellgraf (ed.). Rechtspopulismen der Gegenwart: kulturwissenschaftliche Irritationen. Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 203–217.

Lems, Annika. 2023. Im-/Mobilität. 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. 327–331.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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).

Lems, A. 2021. Entfremdungsprozesse verstehen. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2021. https://www.eth.mpg.de/6107720/research_report_18028334?c=2923387.

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.

Lems, Annika. 2014. A country big enough to disappear in. Inside Story, May 27, 2014.

Lems, Annika. 2011. Beyond the easy life of gods. Inside Story, July 12, 2011.

Lems, Annika. 2009. The Mediterranean solution. Inside Story, February 10, 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lems, Annika, Danaé Leitenberg, Christine Moderbacher, Herta Nöbauer, and Markus Wurzer. 2024. Alpine Geschichten des globalen Wandels: eine Annäherung in fünf Bildskizzen. Brixen: A. Weger.

Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of belonging: the education of unaccompanied refugee youth. Worlds in crisis: refugees, asylum, and forced migration. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Lems, Annika. 2018. Being-here: placemaking in a world of movement. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Lems, Annika. 2023. Frontiers of belonging: the education of unaccompanied refugee youth. Read On.

Lems, Annika and Christine Moderbacher. 2008. Harraga. 48 min.

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/.

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/.

Drotbohm, Heike and Annika Lems. 2018. Introduction: displacement and new sociabilities. Allegra Laboratory. http://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-displacement-and-new-sociabilities/.

Lems, Annika. 2018. On being made feel out of place. Allegra Laboratory. http://allegralaboratory.net/on-being-made-feel-out-of-place-displacement/.

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/.

Lems, Annika. 2024. Frontiers of belonging: the education of unaccompanied refugee youth. Interview by Jovan Maud. Talk On. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/podcasts/talk-on/annika-lems/frontiers-of-belonging.