Can Akin

Since 12/2022 Research Associate and PhD Student, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Hamburg, in the DFG-funded project “Return to Mexico: Migration and the pluralization of kinship”

10/2016 - 06/2021 M.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology (major), M.A. Philosophy (minor), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Thesis: Mehr als nur Mezcal – Die Erfindung einer authentischen mexikanischen Spirituose

04/2012 - 07/2016 B.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology (major), B.Sc. Psychology (minor), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Thesis: Think out of the Box – Interdisziplinäre Weiterentwicklungen der Theory of Mind und Opacity of Mind

• Migration and return
• Social class, space and place
• Kinship and transnational relationships
• City and urbanity
• Lifestyles and distinction
• Phenomenology
• Regional: Mexico

Some Things Will Never Change? Sibling Relations as Affective Responses in Three Transnational Contexts (with Julia Pauli and Charlot Schneider). Panel “Through thick and thin? Intra-generational kinship in and across transnational lifeworlds” (organised by Julia Pauli and Laura Ogden). 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris-Aubervilliers, France, 03.07.2025

(Im)perfect homecomings: return migration, social class and motherhood in Mexico City. Panel “Motherhood on the move: infrastructures of im/mobilities” (organised by Andrea Verdasco and Rachel Benchekroun). ASA2025, Birmingham, UK, 10.04.2025 (DAAD-funded)

“Esto ya no es vida para mi”: La reinvención personal de personas retornadas en la Ciudad de México [“This is no life for me anymore”: The self-reinvention of returnees in Mexico City]. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad Iberoamericana CDMX, Mexico, 22.02.2024

¿Volver al nido o comenzar de nuevo? Experiencias de retorno a la Ciudad de México [Back to the nest or start from scratch? Experiences of returning to Mexico City]. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 12.09.2023