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Les migrations de travail en Afrique face aux instruments juridiques / Augustin Emane. - D'un savoir faire à l'autre - Migration et transformations sociales en Afrique, le cas des migrants maliens / Bréhima Kassibo / Pierre Cissé. - The Resonance of Travel in a Dogon Village - Pilgrimage Experience, Mobility and Social Change in Songho, Mali / Denise Dias Barros / Mustafa Abdalla. - Des pratiques religieuses dans la mobilité aux figures religieuses de la migration africaine / Sophie Bava. - Islam, migration estudiantine et espace en mouvement - La réponse des établissements supérieurs privés et des associations islamiques burkinabè / Abdoul Hadi Pingréwaoga Béma Savadogo. - Migration, Marriage, and Modernity - Motives, Impacts, and Negotiations of Rural-Urban Circulation among Young Women in Northern Ghana / Christian Ungruhe. - Fluid Autonomies - Male Mobility and the Changing Position of Females in Upper Egypt / Senni Jyrkiäinen. - Non-migrant, Sedentary, Immobile, or "Left Behind"? Reflections on the Absence of Migration / Gunvor Jόnsson. - Ceux qui sont de passage et ceux qui restent - L'émigration capverdienne à São Tomé et Príncipe / Marina Berthet. - Becoming by Moving - Khartoum and Addis Ababa as Migratory Stages between Eritrea and "Something" / Magnus Treiber

In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the 'refugee crisis'. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with signifi cant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumptions of refugee work. One aim of this article is to destabilise terms such as refugee, refugee work, success and failure with our engagements in the aftermath of the 'crisis'. Refugee work is not exclusively humanitarian aid directed towards the alleviation of suff ering but includes being and doing together. Through productive failures and emergent lessons, the collaboration enhanced our understandings of social categories and the role of anthropology.