Author

Michaela Pelican

Observed names: MICHAELA PELICAN, Pelican, M., Pelican, Michaela, Pelican, Michaela 1972-

Institutions: Harvard University, University of Cologne, Russell Sage Foundation

Observed institutions: Harvard University, Max Planck Society, University of Cologne, Russell Sage Foundation, University of Zurich, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-3173-2410

OpenAlex ID: A5078744321

Complexities of indigeneity and autochthony: An African example

2009 · Michaela Pelican · American Ethnologist · 155

Between regular and irregular employment: subverting the kafala system in the GCC countries

2018 · Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Michaela Pelican · Migration and Development · 45

Mbororo Claims to Regional Citizenship and Minority Status in North-West Cameroon

2008 · Michaela Pelican · Africa · 42

International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon

2012 · Michaela Pelican · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · 38

Migration to the Gulf States and China: Local Perspectives from Cameroon

2009 · Peter Tatah, Michaela Pelican · African Diaspora · 35

Sharing or Dividing the Land? Land Rights and Farmer-Herder Relations in Burkina Faso and Northwest Cameroon

2006 · Andreas Dafinger, Michaela Pelican · Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 32

Urban Lifeworlds of Cameroonian Migrants in Dubai

2014 · Michaela Pelican · Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development · 25

Getting along in the Grassfields - interethnic relations and identity politics in Northwest Cameroon

2006 · Pelican, Michaela · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 18

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Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants

2008 · Michaela Pelican · African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie · 17

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The Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa: Perspectives From Botswana and Cameroon

2015 · Michaela Pelican, Junko Maruyama · African study monographs · 16

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Friendship among pastoral Fulbe in Northwest Cameroon

2012 · Michaela Pelican · African study monographs · 15

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Introduction

2014 · Michaela Pelican, Jan Patrick Heiss · Journal des africanistes · 11

Mbororo on the move: from pastoral mobility to international travel

2011 · Michaela Pelican · Journal of Contemporary African Studies · 11

Masks and Staffs: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

2015 · Michaela Pelican · Berghahn Books · 10

Ethnicity as a political resource: Indigenous rights movements in Africa

2015 · Michaela Pelican · transcript Verlag eBooks · 9

Land rights and the politics of integration : pastoralists' strategies in a comparative view

2002 · Andreas Dafinger, Michaela Pelican · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics · 7

Melilla. Perspectives on a Border Town

2017 · Michaela Pelican, Sofie Steinberger · Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln) · 6

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)

2013 · Michaela Pelican · Anthropology Today · 6

Innovation, Music and Future Making by Young Africans in a Challenging Environment: Examples from Cameroon and Nigeria

2022 · Jonathan Ngeh, Michaela Pelican · BRILL eBooks · 4

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Neoliberal Challenges and Transnational Lives of Cameroonian Migrants in Dubai

2015 · Michaela Pelican · Gerlach Press eBooks · 4

Umstrittene Rechte indigener Völker: das Beispiel der Mbororo in Nordwestkamerun

2010 · Michaela Pelican · Zeitschrift für Ethnologie · 4

Freundschaftsprozesse in Afrika aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive

2004 · Tilo Grätz, Barbara Meier, et al. · Africa Spectrum · 4

Embodied by state borders: citizenship negotiations of children in Chinese–foreign families in the People’s Republic of China

2023 · Elena Barabantseva, Caroline Grillot, et al. · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · 3

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Researching South-South / South-East Migration : transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants

2011 · Pelican, Michaela · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 3

Frauen- und Männerfreundschaften im Kameruner Grasland: ein komparativer Ansatz

2004 · Michaela Pelican · Africa Spectrum · 3

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Works count: 90

Citation count: 540

H-index: 11

I10-index: 14