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Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

DIVAn ethnographic study of migration based on the experiences of three dispersed Caribbean families as they maintain networks across their diverse locations./div

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Duke University Press

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0822339943

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9780822339946

Siting Culture

The Shifting Anthropological Object

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Siting Culture

The Shifting Anthropological Object

By: Karen Fog Olwig

Siting Culture will be essential reading to the many students of culture who are looking for ways of siting culture in the diffuse and complex theoretical space of present day anthropology.

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Psychology Press

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0415150027

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9780415150026

Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

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The Biometric Border World

Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move

By: Karen Fog Olwig,Kristina Grünenberg,Perle Møhl,Anja Simonsen

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The Biometric Border World

Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move

By: Karen Fog Olwig,Kristina Grünenberg,Perle Møhl,Anja Simonsen

Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements. Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put to use and negotiated in key European border sites. It analyses the disparate ways in which the technologies are applied, perceived and experienced by border control agents and others managing the cross-border flow of people, by scientists and developers engaged in making the technologies, and by migrants and non-government organizations attempting to manoeuvre in the complicated and often-unpredictable systems of technological control. Biometric technologies are promoted by national and supranational authorities and industry as scientifically exact and neutral methods of identification and verification, and as an infallible solution to security threats. The ethnographic case studies in this volume demonstrate, however, that the technologies are, in fact, characterized by considerable ambiguity and uncertainty and subject to substantial subjective interpretation, translation and brokering with different implications for migrants, border guards, researchers and other actors engaged in the border world.

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366

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Routledge

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1000713032

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9781000713039

Work and Migration

Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World

By: Karen Fog Olwig,Ninna Nyberg Sorensen

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Work and Migration

Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World

By: Karen Fog Olwig,Ninna Nyberg Sorensen

Using case-studies from those who have moved either transnationally or internally within their own country, international contributors offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move.

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1134503059

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9781134503056

Global Culture, Island Identity

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Global Culture, Island Identity

By: Karen Fog Olwig

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

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