Annika Lems is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra and a research partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She is the author of two monographs, Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement (Berghahn, 2018) and Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth (Indiana University Press, 2022).