In: Civil Engineering
Engaging Anthropology in the "Refugee Crisis" in Berlin
This provides insights into the various ways in which women perceive of and experience their living conditions in five different asylum accommodation centers in Berlin. In particular, it explores how women who have fled from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Albania, and who have diverse socio-economic, linguistic and educational backgrounds – describe their lives in the camps with regard to health and care, administration and registration, social interactions and support, and safety and privacy.
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Forced Migration and the Anthropological
Response
The study of refugees and other forced migrants is now a major
area within anthropology, which has been able to draw on earlier
sociological studies of immigrant communities and anthropological
studies of labour migration and
settlement in urban areas. Displacement is now seen as an endemic
phenomenon that affects those uprooted, the communities that feel
the impact of their arrival, governments, and the international
agencies which increasingly play a major role in dealing with
displacement. Uprooting and movement into new communities
involve processes such as labelling, identity management, boundary
creation and maintenance, management of reciprocity, manipulation
of myth, and forms of social control.
Cite by name of Elizabeth colson