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Apostolos Andrikopoulos
@andrikopoulos.bsky.social
Anthropologist, University College London;
Author of
ARGONAUTS OF WEST AFRICA: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe by University of Chicago Press
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So honored to share that my book #ArgonautsOfWestAfrica received the 2024 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
the Association for Africanist Anthropology
#AAA2024Tampa
Congratulations to Apostolos Andrikopoulos on his book Argonauts of West Africa winning the 2024 Elliot Skinner Book Prize Award at #AAA2024! Learn more about the book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo194245652.html.
A great loss, he will be deeply missed..
Our friend, colleague, and comrade @paulmepschen.bsky.social has passed away after many health struggles. He was a committed scholar, a faithful friend, and a beloved teacher. He pioneered the critical analysis of the sexual politics of nativism in the Netherlands. You will be missed, Paul 🖤🕯️
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#IMISCOE2025 here i come! Armed with water bottles and a fan.
Let me know which panels i shouldn't miss!!

I'll be presenting the introduction to our special issue on same sex marriage migration with @andrikopoulos.bsky.social and hosting a panel on family reunification politics with Gina Longo.
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Αυτή την Πέμπτη (10/4) θα είμαι στη Θεσσαλονίκη για να παρουσιάσω το βιβλίο μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (13:00–15:00, Αμφ. 7).

Θα χαρώ πολύ να δω φίλους, παλιούς συμφοιτητές και όποιον άλλο ενδιαφέρεται!
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Thank you to @scmrjems.bsky.social for publishing my perspectives on migration brokerage, human trafficking, and racialization in football. It has been a long time in the making!
@rcsunigroningen.bsky.social @fifpro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The promise of empowerment: football migration brokerage between west Africa and Europe
Since the 1990s, west African young men have increasingly aspired to migrate through football, i.e. to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Key figures in their migration pro...
www.tandfonline.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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So grateful to Apostolos for his thoughtful (and critical!) engagement with my book. My response will be published soon.
My engagement with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social ' s must-read book on the experiences of young asylum seekers claiming protection as minors in Germany - a daring and sensitive ethnography that offers unique insights into the consequences of age classifications and their often unexpected outcomes.
#ERSNew 🐣🔓 Forever 17 examines how these young men navigate age classifications, often strategically claiming an age that aligns with their needs. This process queers temporalities of ageing and state-centred binary classifications. Article by. @andrikopoulos.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/4jDHWc4
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My engagement with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social ' s must-read book on the experiences of young asylum seekers claiming protection as minors in Germany - a daring and sensitive ethnography that offers unique insights into the consequences of age classifications and their often unexpected outcomes.
#ERSNew 🐣🔓 Forever 17 examines how these young men navigate age classifications, often strategically claiming an age that aligns with their needs. This process queers temporalities of ageing and state-centred binary classifications. Article by. @andrikopoulos.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/4jDHWc4
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
RIP Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Today, the world feels like a smaller place without you. A brilliant mind, a model of an engaged anthropologist, and, most of all, a genuinely kind and caring person. You will be deeply missed.
November 28, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Join us again in congratulating Apostolos Andrikopoulos on receiving an honorable mention for the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology for his book Argonauts of West Africa, which also won the Elliot Skinner Book Prize Award at #AAA2024!
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
So honored to share that my book #ArgonautsOfWestAfrica received the 2024 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
the Association for Africanist Anthropology
#AAA2024Tampa
Congratulations to Apostolos Andrikopoulos on his book Argonauts of West Africa winning the 2024 Elliot Skinner Book Prize Award at #AAA2024! Learn more about the book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo194245652.html.
November 21, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Reposted by Apostolos Andrikopoulos
How about a kinship studies starter pack?

Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share!

Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM