Dr. Jagat Sohail is a sociocultural anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Over the past decade, he has conducted research on migration and asylum in Germany, with a particular interest in the intersection of psychic life and political economy amid existentially fraught projects of global mobility. The past - as memory, history and trace - inform the way he examines new encounters in the contemporary. His forthcoming book, Shadows of the Long Summer, is based on his doctoral research at Princeton University and explores the afterlives of a pivotal event in contemporary German history: a moment in 2015 when a “welcome culture” greeted refugees fleeing civil war and catastrophe in the Middle-East. His current research examines German demographic anxieties and “great replacement” racial conspiracies through the perspective of migrants from Southern India coming into Germany to work in the healthcare sector.