SEEKING REFUGE, SEEKING RIGHTS, SEEKING A FUTURE 3rd Annual International Forced Migration Student Conference will take place 13-14 May 2005, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK) >> continue
Four of this year's conference papers are available online… more »
Category: "migration"
University of Oslo
Cultural complexity in the new Norway, represents a large commitment by the University of Oslo towards research on cultural diversity. This is the first time in the history of the University of Oslo that it is being worked cross-dis… more »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Europe, migration, Native American, art
Boston Globe
Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, who have work up at the Bernard Toale Gallery, are anthropologists of a sort. They document explosions of one culture within another, which occur through migration, colonialism, but also throug… more »
space and culture has collected links to a newer phenomenon called "ethnourbia", a term coined in the 1990s by geographer Wei Li:
"Suburbs are bland, right? They’re boring, monotonous, devoid of life and culture: homogeneous. Nope. Suburbia is becomin… more »
New Zealand News
At the end of this month Auckland City will celebrate Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights. Public celebration of Indian religious festivals in New Zealand is a recent trend, although Indians have been in the country since 1810 when… more »
International Herald Tribune
On Wednesday, European commissioners in Brussels are likely to give their approval for Turkey, which has been a member of NATO since 1952, to begin talks to join the European Union.
Yet in the crucible of the Ruhrgebiet… more »
by lorenz on Sep 7, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, migration, Native American, persons and theories
Reuters
Anthropologists stepped into a hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia. The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today's native Ame… more »
by lorenz on Sep 6, 2004 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, Asia, globalisation, migration • 1 comment »
Nepal News
With the increase in the population, Kathmandu valley's dynamics and structures of population have changed. New migrant families are coming up and the structures of old families are transforming from extended ones to nucleus. The family rel… more »
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