Universität zu Köln

2024

Kutsche, Fabiana ORCID: 0000-0002-8348-9889, Ngeh, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0002-5159-748X and Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2024). Producing and reproducing social inequalities through labor exploitation across time and space. An intermediate analysis. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln. Working Paper.

2020

Pelican, Michaela, Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine and Zafer, Karim, eds. (2020). Flucht - Familie - Soziale Netzwerke: Forschungen mit Geflüchteten in und um Köln. Ergebnisse des Lehrforschungsprojekts "Ethnographie vor der Haustür" der Universität zu Köln. Köln: Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln.

2019

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine (2019). Between regular and irregular employment: subverting the kafala system in the GCC countries. Migration and Development, 8 (2). pp. 155-175.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410, Pieke, Frank, Barabantseva, Elena, Speelman, Tabitha, Feng, Wang and Biao, Xiang (2019). How immigration is shaping Chinese society. Working Paper.

2018

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2018). Different trajectories of the indigenous rights movement in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania. In: Indigeneity on the Move, pp. 143-171. Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1785337222

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Ngeh, Jonathan (2018). Intersectionality and the Labour Market in the United Arab Emirates: The experiences of African migrants. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 143 (2). pp. 171-194. Reimer. ISSN 0044-2666

2017

Pelican, Michaela and Steinberger, Sofie, eds. (2017). Melilla. Perspectives on a Border Town. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne.

Pelican, Michaela (2017). Concluding remarks: Melilla – a small place with large issues. In: Melilla – Perspectives on a Border Town, pp. 79-81. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln.

Pelican, Michaela (2017). Introduction. In: Melilla – Perspectives on a Border Town, pp. 13-18. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2017). La complessità dell’indigenità e dell’autoctonia : un caso africano. In: La Questione Indigena in Africa, pp. 73-115. Milano: UNICOPLI.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2017). Masks and staffs: Identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields. ISBN 978-178238729-9

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Dong, Li (2017). PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou. In: Global Africa, pp. 193-201. California: University Press. ISBN 9780520287365

2016

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2016). Les migrants camerounais à Dubaï: stratégies d’insertion socio-économique et relations transnationales. Al Irfan 2, Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales/Marruecos. pp. 91-114.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2016). Podcast Series ‘Research, Action & Art’.

2015

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2015). Ethnicity as a Political Resource – Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-3013-8

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2015). Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Indigenous rights movements in Africa. In: Ethnicity as a Political Resource - Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods, pp. 137-151. Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-3013-8

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2015). Movimientos por los derechos indígenas en África: Perspectivas desde Botsuana, Tanzania y Camerún. Revista Contra Relatos desde el Sur (12). pp. 31-46. Madrid: Cuadernos de estudios africanos. ISSN 0214-218X

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2015). Neoliberal Challenges and Transnational Lives of Cameroonian Migrants in Dubai. In: Africa and the Gulf Region: Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties, pp. 92-110. Berlin: Gerlach Press. ISBN 978-3-940924-71-1

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2015). Space for informal activities. In: Reflections on migration in the Global South – Voices from around the world, pp. 8-10. Cologne:

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Maruyama, Junko (2015). Indigenous Identities and Ethnic Coexistence in Africa. African Study Monographs, 36 (1). pp. 1-3. University Press. ISSN 0285-1601

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Maruyama, Junko (2015). The Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa: Perspectives from Botswana and Cameroon. African Study Monographs, 36 (1). Kyoto: University Press. ISSN 0285-1601

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Maruyama, Junko (2015). Introduction: Indigenous identities and ethnic coexistence in Africa. African Study Monographs, 36 (1). pp. 1-3. Kyoto: University Press. ISSN 0285-1601

2014

Pelican, Michaela, ed. (2014). BAOHAN Street: An African Community in Guangzhou. Documentary photographs by Li Dong. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne.

Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine, Menzfeld, Mira and Pelican, Michaela, eds. (2014). Islam und Sport: Einblicke in das interdisziplinäre Forschungs- und Lehrprojekt „Ethnographie vor der Haustür“ der Universität zu Köln. Köln: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2014). International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon. In: Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power, pp. 55-75. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138013032

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2014). Urban Lifeworlds of Cameroonian Migrants in Dubai. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development (43). pp. 255-309. ISSN 0894-6019

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Bondanini, Francesco (2014). Portrait of a Migrant Woman: Martha in Dubai.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Heiss, Jan Patrick (2014). “Making a Future” in Contemporary Africa. Journal des Africanistes, 84 (1). Societe des Africanistes. ISSN 1957-7850

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Heiss, Jan Patrick (2014). “Making a future” in contemporary Africa. Introduction. Journal des Africanistes, 84 (1). pp. 7-19. Paris: Sociéte des Africanistes. ISSN 1957-7850

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Saul, Mahir (2014). Global African Entrepreneurs. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 43 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 0894-6019

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Saul, Mahir (2014). Global African Entrepreneurs: A new research perspective on contemporary African migration. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 43 (1-3). pp. 1-16. ISSN 0894-6019

2013

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2013). International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39 (2). pp. 237-258.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Greil, Nikolaus (2013). ‘Performing Ethnography’: Cameroonian masked performance enacted by anthropology students of the University of Cologne as part of the course on methods of visual and theatre anthropology.

2012

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2012). Friendship among pastoral Fulbe in northwest Cameroon. African Study Monographs, 33 (3). Kyoto: University Press. ISSN 0285-1601

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2012). From cultural property to market goods: Changes in the economic strategies and herd management rationales of agro-pastoral fulbe in North West Cameroon. In: Who Owns the Stock? Collective and multiple property rights in animals, pp. 213-230. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 978-0-85745-336-5

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2012). Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon: Transformations in identity and political representation. Afro-Eurasian Inner Dry Land Civilizations (1). pp. 113-126. ISSN 2186-795X

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Mimche, Honoré (2012). Quand les immigrants se font "autochtones": dynamiques d'insertion des Mbororo et insécurité foncière à l'ouest-Cameroun. In: L' "in"sécurité au Cameroun: mythe ou réalité?, pp. 145-167. Paris: Iresma.

2011

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2011). Mbororo on the move: From pastoral mobility to international travel. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 29 (4). pp. 427-440. University Press. ISSN 0022-278X

2010

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2010). Beyond national citizenship.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2010). Contested indigenous rights: The case of the Mbororo in northwest Cameroon | Umstrittene rechte indigener völker: Das beispiel der Mbororo in Nordwestkamerun. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (135). pp. 39-60. Reimer. ISSN 0044-2666

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2010). Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants. In: Mobility, Transnationalism and Contemporary African Societies, pp. 178-191. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443818537

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2010). Rezension zu: Ian Fowler and Verkijika Fanso (eds.). 2009. Encounter, Transformation, and Identity: peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands 1891–2000. Africa, 80 (4). pp. 668-669. Cambridge: University Press. ISSN 1750-0184

2009

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2009). Auseinandersetzungen um die Rechte indigener Völker: das Beispiel der Mbororo in Nordwest Kamerun. Tsantsa (14). pp. 56-65. Zürich: Seismo. ISSN 1420-7834

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2009). Complexities of indigeneity and autochthony: An African example. American Ethnologist, 36 (1). pp. 52-65. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 1548-1425

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2009). Customary, state and human rights approaches to containing witchcraft in Cameroon. In: Permutations of Order. Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties, pp. 149-164. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781315600062

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2009). Enjoying the Hospitality of Mbororo People. The Success Story Magazine: About talented Cameroonians at home and abroad (21). pp. 18-23.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Heiss, Jan Patrick (2009). Kommentar. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 134 (1). pp. 114-117. Reimer. ISSN 0044-2666

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Tatah, Peter (2009). Migration to the Gulf States and China: Local perspectives from Cameroon. African Diaspora, 2 (2). pp. 229-244. ISSN 1872-5457

2008

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2008). Bush faller: KamerunerInnen zwischen Fremde und Heimat. Journal Ethnologie (3).

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2008). Face To Face: Cameroon – Gabon – Dubai – Geneva.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2008). Mbororo claims to regional citizenship and minority status in north-west Cameroon. Africa, 78 (4). pp. 540-560. University Press. ISSN 1750-0184

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410, Tatah, Peter and Ndjio, Basile (2008). Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants. African Sociological Review, 12 (2). pp. 117-127. Dakar: CODESRIA. ISSN 1027 4332

2006

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Dafinger, Andreas (2006). Sharing or dividing the land? Land rights and herder-farmer relations in a comparative perspective. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 40 (1). pp. 127-151. Taylor & Francis. ISSN 1923-3051

2004

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2004). Frauen- und Männerfreundschaften im Kameruner Grasland: ein komparativer Ansatz. Africa Spectrum, 39 (1). pp. 63-93. London: SAGE. ISSN 1868-6869

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2004). Im Schatten der Schlachtviehmärkte: Milchwirtschaft der Mbororo in Nordwestkamerun. In: Ethnizität und Markt: Zur ethnischen Struktur von Viehmärkten in Westafrika, pp. 131-158. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89645-248-1

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2004). Rezension zu: Helen Regis. 2004. Fulbe voices: marriage, Islam and medicine in Northern Cameroon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10 (2). pp. 483-484. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 1467-9655

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410, Grätz, Tilo and Meier, Barbara (2004). Freundschaftsprozesse in Afrika aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Eine Einführung. Africa Spectrum, 39 (1). pp. 9-39. London: SAGE. ISSN 1868-6869

2003

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2003). Interethnische Freundschaften in Nordwest Kamerun: ein Vergleich ethnischer und gender-spezifischer Praktiken und Konzepte. Working Paper.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410, Grätz, Tilo and Meier, Barbara (2003). Zur sozialen Konstruktion von Freundschaft. Überlegungen zu einem vernachlässigten Thema der Sozialanthropologie (Schwerpunkt Afrika). Working Paper.

2002

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Dafinger, Andreas (2002). Land rights and the politics of integration: pastoralists’ strategies in a comparative view. Working Paper.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 and Orland, Judith (2002). Getting along in the Grassfields: Aspects of village life in Misaje (North West Cameroon).

2001

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2001). Farmer-herder conflict, role-play of the Ballotiral staff. Nkambe 29/01/2001.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2001). Report: Misaje Film Festival 26-28th October 2001. Other.

Pelican, Michaela ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410 (2001). Sippoygo (selling milk), role-play of the Mbororo women’s group of Chako. 08/04/2001.