Angelina Kussy

Pompeu Fabra University | UPF · Department of Political and Social Sciences

Harshly exploited migrants’ care work plays a fundamental role in the political economy of the reproductive social regime in Europe. Different scholars described the instance behind its colonial mechanism of care drain from the Global South to the North, drawing on Hochschild’s term ‘care chains’. Nevertheless, a theoretical reflection on a similar...

There is an urgent need to develop a coherent political strategy to address the current crisis of care. Allocation of care through the market or the state leads to a care and democratic deficit. Organising care on the logic of the commons provides an alternative paradigm rooted in democracy and solidarity. Municipalism aims to build institutions to...

There have been plenty of interpretations regarding the meaning and function of sacrifice within the discipline of anthropology. Going beyond sacrifice as a ritual and exploring a wide range of its manifestations and functions as contemporary cultural practices, discourses, and underlying logics, we reveal its role in the social organization of soc...

This article explores through qualitative methods how structural inequalities and weak welfare states push women to migrate in their old age to piece together their pension across different countries. Based on in-depth interviews, observations, and ethnographic conversations conducted with Romanian women in Spain, it explores how they navigate the...

El artículo examina las premisas detrás de la representación de los indígenas mapuche del fi nal de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, construida por Ignacio Domeyko en su libro etnográfi co Araucania y sus habitantes (y, a su vez, las de algunas de las críticas de su obra). A través de un hermenéutico y contextualizado análisis crítico del discurso i...

The following doctoral thesis explores the link between Romanian massive migration to the province of Castellón at a Maditterenean coast in Spain from 1989 until nowadays, the crisis of social reproduction in both countries, and the crisis of social care provision in Spain in particular. Subsequently, from the critique of the current organisation o...

Migrants' property ownership in their countries of origin is often understood through the prism of return: both intended and actual return mobilities. Applying a transnational optic, this article unpacks the relationships between migrants' property ownership 'back home' and their reflections on future moves and stays, not limited to possible return...

it is open access > https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80262-119-820221010/full/html Universities are large, complex and highly hierarchical organisations with deeply engrained gendered values, norms and practices. This chapter reflects on the experiences of two universities in initiating structural change towards gender equ...

Migration may affect migrants’ ideas as they become exposed to different contexts over time. But how does such exposure and opportunities for comparative evaluation of origin and settlement contexts, translate into content for potential political remittances? To answer this question, we analyse 80 interviews with Polish and Romanian migrants living...

Speech given at the 9th annual event Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Mobilising the Planet in the evening panel session with the president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Maria Ivancheva. The multiple crises we live through, the environmental crises, the social reproductive crises, the migratory crises, and the c...

External voting by nonresident citizens has become an important feature of contemporary democratic politics. However, compared to the average voter in domestic elections, we still know significantly less about migrants' motivations to vote or not. Whereas analyses of external voting patterns offer insights into the results of external voting compar...

In this report, we present insights from interviews with Polish and Romanian migrants living in Barcelona and Oslo. These interviews were conducted as part of the DIASPOlitic project “Understanding the Political Dynamics of Émigré Communities in an Era of European Democratic Backsliding”. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and...

Los cambios económicos, el desempleo y la precariedad de las condiciones de la vida de las mayorías sociales han reforzado la teoría del inminente colapso del capitalismo entendido como sociedad organizada en base al trabajo. En este artículo argumentamos que la tendencia es exactamente opuesta: el trabajo no sólo sigue siendo una institución centr...

Thiw work presents the results of long-term fieldwork in Marinaleda, a Spanish ‘anti-capitalist’ village declared by alter-globalists as the practical realisation of the slogan ’another world is possible’ and the alternative to neoliberalism. Since 1979 the village has been running using political and economic mechanisms alternative to mainstream c...

The article presents the results of two periods of long-term fieldwork in Marinaleda, an ‘anti-capitalist’ Spanish village. It aims to reflect on the genealogy of the modern understanding of the term ‘work’ and to critically approach its philosophical and anthropological assumptions. We want to prove that the proposition of the village, declared by...