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Category: migration
26/09/09
02:41:21, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, anthropology (general), websites What has anthropology taught you?
A friend of mine sent me a link to the website of the Norwegian migration researcher Jørgen Carling http://www.dragoeiro.com It has an unusually nice design, but what I'm even more impressed about is the section "Research findings". Here, he lists selec… more »
19/01/09
22:06:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open access: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
Xenophobia in South Africa, labour mobility and economic development, minorities’ integration, representation of refugees and forced migrants in the British Economy are some of the topics in the most recent issue of Journal of Identity and Migration Stud… more »
28/08/08
00:44:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories, University / Academia, interdisciplinary How to challenge Us-and-Them thinking? Interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen
As some of you might know, I work as a journalist at the interdisciplinary research programme Culcom - Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. I've just put online the English translation of my interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen, research director of C… more »
30/04/08
16 articles on Migration and Transnationality in Anthropology News May
Articles on Biometrics, US Refugee policy, children's migration, transnational students, challenges of multi-sited ethnography and more can be found in the most recent issue of Anthropology News May, a publication by the American Anthropological Associat… more »
17/02/08
17:41:55, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, websites Open Access: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Migration and Constructions of the Other is the topic of the first (and most recent) issue of the Open Access journal South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
According to their self-description, the journal "seeks to ‘democratize’ research-bas… more »
07/11/07
Study: Anti-immigration steps are doing the opposite of what they intend to do
Restrictions to keep immigrants from entering the United States are having the effect of encouraging those who are already here to stay by any means necessary, a study by anthropologist Maxine L. Margolis finds.
“The restrictions are doing exactly th… more »
24/10/07
12 new interviews about cosmopolitanism, islam, modernity, street culture...
In case you're wondering why this blog sometimes has not been updated for several days: One reason might be my job as a webjournalist for the research program Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM).
Now, several of my interviews and summaries… more »
08/08/07
14:51:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, anthropology (general), Middle East, websites "Voices": Anthropologist publishes e-book about Palestinian women
Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement is a collection of oral histories recorded by Beirut-based anthropologist and oral historian Rosemary Sayigh. It was published as e-book, devoted to men and women living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and… more »
02/04/07
01:24:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Five more interviews on cultural complexity!
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
28/02/07
How do low-cost airlines influence how people and money travel?
The International Herald Tribune writes about how European low-cost airlines "are drawing a new map of how people and money travel in Europe". An example:
Andrzej Majewski, a Pole who works as a thoracic surgeon in Britain, catches a ride to the airpo… more »
21/01/07
18:46:49, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Doctoral thesis: Towards a transnational Islam
Young muslims are moving from an Islam based on the culture of their homeland to an increasingly transnationally embedded Islam of Muslims from many different countries and cultures. That's one of the findings in the doctoral thesis by Norwegian anthrop… more »
04/12/06
For free migration: Open the borders!
Given the continuing massive disparities in wealth between Europe and Africa, immigration is unlikely to stop anytime soon. Remittances sent by migrants are the second most important income source for many countries in the south. Border control is expens… more »
31/10/06
Why borders don't help - An engaged anthropology of the US-Mexican border
"Anthropologists Should Participate in the Current Immigration Debate" was the title of an earlier entry. Josiah McC. Heyman is one of the engaged anthropologists. He wrote several newspaper articles about the US-Mexican border where he showed that more… more »
00:00:58, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Asia, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, cyberanthropology, internet Second generation migrants blog more about race and ethnicity
Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.
He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migra… more »
23/10/06
21:29:00, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Online: Thesis about Up-Country Tamil Students
"Their history deserves to be known in every other country where one can expect to be served a cup of Ceylon tea", Norwegian anthropologist Haakon Aasprong writes in his thesis Making a Home Away from Home: On Up-country Tamil identity and social complex… more »
16/10/06
00:25:51, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Europe, migration, food and drink France: More and more muslims observe Ramadan
Ramadan is being increasingly observed by France's Muslim community - but also for a few French non-Muslims, afp reports. "I do it sometimes to show my support for my Muslim friends," said Lorie, a schoolgirl in the eastern suburb of Montreuil.
The tr… more »
09/10/06
An exhibition and a movie: The French, colonialism and the construction of "the other"
The first temporary exhibition at Paris’s Quai Branly museum takes an ambitious look at how the West constructs its ‘other’, Mary Stevens writes in her research blog about the reconfiguration of national identity in French museums:
In the permanent e… more »
11/09/06
13:48:09, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Qualitative Migration Research in Europe: New issue of "Forum Qualitative Social Research"
How to do research on migration? Lots of interesting papers in the recent issue of the multilingual and interdisciplinary Open Access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
"Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe" is the topic of… more »
09/08/06
00:58:12, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, migration, persons and theories, cosmopolitanism Interview with Arjun Appadurai: "An increasing and irrational fear of the minorities"
Fear of Small Numbers, the new book by Mumbai-born anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has received attention across America. He discusses why, in the age of globalisation, opening of markets, free flow of capital and liberal ideas, minorities in many countri… more »
24/07/06
02:06:31, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, journal articles / papers Participant rather than client - anthropologist studies new refugee integration programme
Refugees are no longer treated as clients but as 'participants'. They no longer receive social benefits but a salary for learning Norwegian and jobtraining. All recognised refugees in Norway have 'the right and duty' to attend a two year full-day Introdu… more »
08/07/06
11:22:24, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet, websites New blog: Sarapen. Online anthropology on Filipino bloggers
(via Livejournal Anthropology Community) Jesse de Leon, Master’s student in Social Anthropology, has started blogging on his research on Filipino bloggers - a very interesting blog about migration, transnationalism, identity and internet research. In hi… more »
29/06/06
02:09:15, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, poverty, migration, journal articles / papers, history Doing fieldwork in Eastern Europe - New issue of Anthropology Matters
The new issue of Anthropology Matters - one of the few online anthropology journals - is out! The nine articles on "Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe" try to explore post-communism in Eastern Europe in new ways. They are based on ethnographic case studie… more »
27/06/06
14:42:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, migration, Visual Anthropology 24 minutes visual anthropology about (trans)nationalism on the Danish-German border
Anthropologist and blogger Johannes Wilm has published a fascinating video about the annual meeting of the Danish minority in a small village in Northern Germany called Ascheffel. Is it possible to be both German and Danish? Why are there so many Germans… more »
26/06/06
The cultural nationalism of citizenship in Japan and other places
As in several European countries, Japanese citizenship is still defined by decent. Inspired by the recent immigration debates in the US, anthropologist Sawa Kurotani reflects about the "cultural nationalism" of Japanese citizenship and concludes: "As lon… more »
11/06/06
"Standard model of the acculturation process is inadequate for understanding immigrant identity"
The magazine India New England writes about a psychologist who has been doing ethnographic fieldwork for two years! :
Sunil Bhatia, associate professor of human development at Connecticut College, uses the tools of ethnography to explore the unsp… more »
06/06/06
"Germans stick to the ethnic definition more than any other European nation"
Germany's real problem isn't "honor" killers or skinheads. Instead, what keeps this increasingly diverse nation from gaining a strong sense of social cohesion is its self-made confusion over what it means to be German in the first place, Gregory Rodrigue… more »
14/05/06
Anthropologist: "The proper way of eating is with a spoon and a fork"
A Montreal newspaper story has rapidly sent Filipino tempers rising around the world. Luc Cagadoc, a 7-year-old pupil, was punished by a lunchtime day-care monitor: “You are in Canada. Here in Canada you should eat the way Canadians eat,” the Quebecois e… more »
12/05/06
Three interviews about multiculturalism, arranged marriages, honor and dignity
Three interviews that I've conducted earlier this year have been translated from Norwegian to English:
Take on the multiculturalism debate - Interview with Alexa Døving
Does culture exist? What is integration? What defines Norwegianness? Is nationali… more »
00:38:22, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general) "Anthropologists Should Participate in the Current Immigration Debate"
"There is ample need for anthropologists and other social scientists to contribute to the immigration debate by providing greater context to the discussion and by describing the effects that immigration policies would have", JC Salyer argues in Anthropo… more »
30/04/06
More Global Apartheid?
In my previous post, I've quoted anthropologist Owen Sichone about the concept of "Global apartheid":
Whatever the advantages of apartness are (more economic than cultural), the South African system came to an end just as the rest of the world was r… more »
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