Border Crossing Fox News Latino reports: Shoes, backpacks and other objects discarded in the desert by undocumented immigrants have been collected by a team of anthropologists to document the difficult journey they make to get into the United States. “For me,…
The Plight of Refugees Tricia Redeker Hepner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee writes at CounterPunch about the plight of refugees: The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan…
A Good Christian Daughter Syriac Woman: So, Sarah, where do your parents live? Sarah: Well, my mother lives in the U.S., and my father lives here in the Netherlands. Syriac Woman: Oh. So…they’re…divorced? Sarah: Yes…it happened a few…
Part II: So Many Interviewees, How Shall I Choose? This summer I’m doing interviews with Palestinian journalists and refugees in which I ask them to interpret and critique U.S. news articles. Why, you might ask, did I choose journalists and refugees as my commentators? Why didn’t I try…
