Overview
Enables the reader to recognize the current European modes of dealing with immigrants (or “strangers”) in society
Provides a much-needed anthropological and non-European counterpoint to scholarly literature on migration
Explores the position of the anthropologist as a “stranger by vocation” during long-term fieldwork
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jos D. M. Platenkamp is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Münster, Germany.
Almut Schneider is Associate Researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrating Strangers in Society
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Elsewhere
Editors: Jos D. M. Platenkamp, Almut Schneider
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16703-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16702-8Published: 27 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16705-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16703-5Published: 15 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 229
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Migration