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Biased media: Are African Students Respected?

Published on November 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, Europe, media, Us and Them

PRICILLA DE WET, Utropia, University of Tromsø, Norway

While watching TV within a circle of Norwegian friends and a Sudanese friend, a documentary about the living conditions in Sudan started. I couldn’t bear the look of disappointment on my Sudanese friend’s face. None of the world’s giant media companies ever dare to show such negative realities about their own countries, namely America and Europe.

The biased broadcasting of Africa by international media companies is of great concern to many Africans living in European countries. This kind of pessimism retards the progress of reaching our ethical goal as a world community for making the world a better place as it promotes disrespect for Africa’s peoples. >> continue

PRICILLA DE WET, Utropia, University of Tromsø, Norway

The Anthropologist as Barman – Durham Anthropology Journal fulltext online

Published on October 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Europe, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, music, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, tourism

Adam R. Kaul, Durham Anthropology Journal

My doctoral research looks at the way in which tourism is changing and interacting with the performance and meaning of traditional Irish music. I carried out over 14 months of fieldwork in a small, rural Irish village of under 600 people, called Doolin, in northwest County Clare.

Anthropologists and sociologists are relatively new to the field of tourism, but I would argue we have some powerful qualitative tools at our disposal that can contribute to a much richer understanding of tourists and tourist destinations. This is true not just for tourist populations, but for other mobile or shifting groups like asylum seekers or economic migrants.

We need to start discussing the everyday realities of doing fieldwork, the potential problems and opportunities, in much more detail in the literature, and how they might be used as units of analysis in and of themselves. >> continue

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Adam R. Kaul, Durham Anthropology Journal

For Turks, Germany is home – Turkey’s EU membership, assimilation and identity

Published on October 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Europe, migration, Us and Them

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, the industrial region around Essen, East has lived with West for 50 years. It is here that answers can be found about whether an earlier wave of Turkish migrants has integrated successfully and what it means today to be European. >> continue

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, the…

Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s september newsletter on immigration issues

Published on September 1, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Europe, migration

Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s homepage

There are, plainly, no good arguments against allowing increased labour migration into European countries. Their labour is needed in our countries with their ageing populations; they enhance and widen the scope of national identities; their remittances help out at home; and their children have opportunities only dreamt about a generation earlier.

The problem for a country like Norway is, therefore, not how to limit the number of asylum-seekers or labour migrants, nor how to mitigate the conflict between immigrants and the domestic working class. The problem consists in attracting professionals. >> continue

Thomas Hylland Eriksen's homepage

Resident Foreigners and Antalya

Published on August 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Europe, globalisation, migration, Us and Them

Zaman Daily, Turkey

Being the meeting point for many peoples and cultures in global tourism activity, Antalya and its environs are turning into a permanent homeland. People from different cultures, nations and with different mentalities, continuously buy land in Antalya, choosing it as their second homeland. Like a junction, Turkey is hosting a new sociological structure that came along with globalization >>continue

Zaman Daily, Turkey