22. Forced Migrations Online - Forced Migration & Anthropological Response (Pr Elizabeth Colson)
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- Points 6
- Questions 6
- Time limit None
- Allowed attempts Unlimited
Instructions
Activities
Please read Colson’s article ‘Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response’ and answer the questions below.
The article is available on: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/1.full.pdf Links to an external site. or http://web.mnstate.edu/robertsb/308/forced migration and the anthropological response.pdf Links to an external site.
Introduction
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) the year 2015 was the highest level of worldwide displacement ever recorded. By the end of 2014, more than 59.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide due to escalating war and conflict. This figure also included 38.2 million internally displaced persons.
Professor Elizabeth Colson is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has addressed several topics through her anthropological work from politics, religion, social organisation, social change, migration, anthropological history and theory to the ethnography of Africa and North America. One of her most significant research was her 1956 field work with the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia. Colson’s ethnographic studies have made theoretical contributions to the sub-disciplines of applied development and political anthropology; and played a key role in consolidating the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford.
A wealth of documents (including the journal of refugees studies and videos and podcasts) can be found on http://www.forcedmigration.org/ Links to an external site. Forced Migration Online (FMO) is home to a growing collection of free resources relating to refugees and forced migration. FMO is designed for use by students, academics, practitioners, policy makers, the media, forced migrants or anyone else interested in the field of forced migration. By bringing together these useful and time-saving resources, FMO aims to support research and policy making in the field.