Michaela Pelican is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She is also the Speaker of the international research unit 'The production and reproduction of social inequalities‘ and the Director of the international research cluster ‘Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience: Learning From Neglected Conflicts in Cameroon and Myanmar’.
Michaela’s thematic foci are South-South mobility, social inequality, ethnicity, conflict, and research methodology....
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3262 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3173-2410 |
| Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michaela-Pelican |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
Roles
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University of Cologne
University, Cologne, Germany
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology -
Universiy of Cologne
Other, Cologne, Germany
Junior Professor -
University of Zurich
University, Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher
Research
Between regular and irregular employment: subverting thekafalasystem in the GCC countries
| Authors | Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Development |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa:
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Indigeneity on the Move |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnicity as a Political Resource : Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods
| Year | 2015 |
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Insights from Cameroon: Five years after the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Anthropology Today |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe by Peter Geschiere
| Authors | MICHAELA PELICAN |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | American Ethnologist |
Mbororo on the move: from pastoral mobility to international travel
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Ian Fowler and Verkijika Fanso (eds), Encounter, Transformation and Identity: peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands 1891–2000. Cameroon Studies 8, New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn (hb £58 – 978 1 84545 3367). 2009, 256 pp.
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Africa |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Complexities of indigeneity and autochthony: An African example
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | American Ethnologist |
| Citations (WoS) | 42 |
Migration to the Gulf States and China: Local Perspectives from Cameroon
| Authors | Peter Tatah, Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | African Diaspora |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mbororo Claims to Regional Citizenship and Minority Status in North-West Cameroon
| Authors | Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Africa |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sharing or Dividing the Land? Land Rights and Farmer-Herder Relations in Burkina Faso and Northwest Cameroon
| Authors | Andreas Dafinger, Michaela Pelican |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
BOOK REVIEWS
| Year | 2004 |
| Journal Name | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
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