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The research project "Displacement in Africa: The Politics and Stakeholders of Migration Governance" compares migration governance in and across receiving & sending nations (South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa). Theoretically, the research will endeavour to bridge migration research with conflict studies.

This blog series aims to discuss, highlight, and engage with scholarship from the regions of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia (ALMA) that ABI staff and associates have particularly enjoyed reading. With this blog we aim to start new conversations, explore interesting themes and topics as well as highlight excellent scholarship. The blog language is in English, a new review is published once a month.

Over several decades since the second half of the 19th century, European military personnel, scientists and merchants have brought cultural and everyday objects, but also human remains from the colonies of the time to their home countries. This is why skulls attributed to the African continent are kept in Freiburg - in the so-called Alexander Ecker Collection. The collection also contains human remains whose acquisition and use cannot be considered ethically and scientifically justifiable from today's perspective; in the case of others, the acquisition history is difficult to reconstruct. The research project resulted in policy recommendations and a science communication video.