• "The Poisoned Waters of Conceiçãozinha," with essay (PDF document) and photos by Stephanie C. Kane.
• "The Virgin of Guadalupe in My Backyard," with essay (PDF document) by Rebecca Read and photos by Jayson Ming Triplett.

In Focus Commentaries

This AN issue features two related In Focus commentary series on contemporary migration and immigration issues. "Migration Policy" considers what anthropology can contribute to the study of public policy affecting the movement, rights and well-being of migrants, immigrants and refugees. Authors address how international bodies, national governments and local communities manage population dynamics, including how notions of personhood are articulated in discourse regarding public domains of care and the provision of public services. In "Transnationality," contributors examine transnational spaces and subjectivities, how they are built, disputed, crossed, imagined and remembered, how people make use of them and are affected by them.

Migration Policy (PDF documents)

Caroline B Brettell and Faith Nibbs – Making Sense of Farmers Branch, Texas

Heide Castañeda – Undocumented Migration, Health Care and Public Policy in Germany

Josiah McC. Heyman – Tough Questions in the US Immigration Debate

Fethi Keles – The Structural Negligence of US Refugee Policy

Erin Kenny – Experiencing Biometrics

Carolina Kobelinsky – The Moral Judgment of Asylum Seekers in French Reception Centers

Greta Uehling – Children's Migration and the Politics of Compassion

Transnationality (PDF documents)

Ulla D Berg – Practical Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography

Laura DeLuca – Sudanese Refugees and New Humanitarianism

Liesl Gambold – Retirement Migrants

Kate Goldade – Health Care Experiences of South-South Migrant Women

Edmund T Hamann and Victor Zúñiga – Transnational Students in Mexican Schools

Lily Harmon-Gross – The Changing Subjectivity of Eritrean Asylum Seekers

Jason Pribilsky – Sending Energías from the Andes

Rebecca Read – The Virgin of Guadalupe in My Backyard and Online Feature: Flickr Photo Gallery

Madeleine Reeves – Materializing Borders

What are your thoughts? Share your comments on the AN blog. Full-text series articles will be available here through May 31, and will then be archived at AnthroSource and AN Archives.