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Olga Jubany – Series Editor – Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series

We are very pleased to announce that Olga Jubany has been appointed as Editor of the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series of Palgrave Macmillan, succeeding Prof. Robin Cohen and Prof. Zig Layton-Henry to continue the legacy of a leading editorial benchmark in the field of migration, with over 20 years of history and more than […]

Seminari REACT

  The European Social Research Unit (ESRU) organises the Seminar #REACT ‘Las contranarrativas contra el discurso de odio’ for the project REACT co-financed by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC) of the EU. The seminar will take place on the 11th of December at the Sala de Juntes of the Faculty of Geography and […]

Study Visit SupportVoC

Today starts the Study Visit from the project @SupportVoc which will foster the exchange of experiences and approaches on the protection of victims of crime among actors from Cyprus, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Spain. Today’s session will include a presentation of the project, an overview of the current situation of the support network for victims […]

IV Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR

On September 5 Jordi Mas i Olga Jubany will present “Las políticas LGTB+ fuera de la gran ciudad. El caso de Sabadell (Cataluña)” at the ‘IV Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR. Encuentros Diálogos y Relatos desde los Sures’ that will take place in Granada (Spain) 4-7 September. Las políticas LGTB+ fuera de la gran ciudad. El […]

New publication from the project Citispyce: Local Matters

Local Matters: the significance of neighbourhoods and social infrastructure for the social inclusion of young people in European cities We are happy to anounce that the results of the project Citispyce are now available in a new publication, Local Matters: the significance of neighbourhoods and social infrastructure for the social inclusion of young people in European […]

Cicle de Conferències sobre Gènere Salut i Igualtat

On 17 May, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, our colleague Jordi Mas will speak about how to prevent and combat LGBTphobia through the results of the project Divercity at the last session of the Conferences on Gender, Health and Equality, organized by the Commission on Equality of Universitat de Barcelona.  

Jornada Feminisme Decolonial

Yesterday, the Aula Magna of the Facultat de Geografia i Història hosted the session ‘Más allá del feminismo blanco, una aproximación feminista decolonial a problemáticas actuales’, organised by the Casa Iberoamericana de la Mujer and GENI. Sirin Adlbi, Úrsula Santa Cruz, Diana Al-Rahmoun and Florencia Brizuela engaged us with compelling and challenging contributions. For those […]

Las Palabras son Armas

We are pleased to announce that the book Las Palabras son Armas. Discurso de odio en la red by Olga Jubany and Malin Roiha has been published. Based on ethnographic research on the experience of youngsters as the main users of social networks, the book analyses the widespread and rabid presence of hate speech on the […]

Book – Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief

Date of event: Sat, 02/12/2017 Place: Washington DC, US Olga Jubany presented her new book Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief, edited by Palgrave MacMillan, at the American Anthropological Association’s 2017 Meeting in Washington. Presenting @OlgaJB's book SCREENING ASYLUM IN A CULTURE OF DISBELIEF at #AmAnth17 !https://t.co/KN8i9TXm6l pic.twitter.com/lcpVcc2wqt — Palgrave Sociology (@PalgraveSoc) December 2, 2017