ANTH 338

Anthropology of Refugees

The course addresses forms of forced migration, including refugees, internally displaced persons, and those displaced by development and disasters. The course is organized around four broad themes; defining and conceptualizing refugees and forms of international intervention; anthropological theory of mobilities and displacement; and applied anthropology. The course covers theoretical implications of displacement central to the anthropological concern with transnational movements, mobility, identity, and belonging and the notion of the ethnographic field

Units: 3.0