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Resident Foreigners and Antalya

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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

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…

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German expatriate employees, globalisation and social mapping

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Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)

Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnational financial corporation. In researching transnational groups, anthropologists need to think less in terms of ‘global’ versus ‘local’, and more in terms of complex relationships between groups of varying degrees and kinds of globalisation.
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Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)

Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnational…

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How Dispersed Sierra Leoneans Maintain Sense of Community

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Newswise

A new book by anthropologist JoAnn D’Alisera explores how displaced Sierra Leonean Muslims sought and found their identity and a sense of community in the United States. “Communities don’t have to be bound geographically,”
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Newswise

A new book by anthropologist JoAnn D’Alisera explores how displaced Sierra Leonean Muslims sought and found their identity and a sense of community in the United States. “Communities don’t have to be bound geographically,”
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