Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods

The contributions from cultural anthropologists address the proletarianiza tion of rural workers after they migrated to core nations.Nina Glick-Schiller de scribes "The Centrality of Ethnography in the Study of Transnational Migra tion" to argue that the core role of ethnography in cultural anthropology permitted that field to be the first social science to highlight the transnational character of the migratory experience.Patricia R. Pessar reminds us, in "Anthropology and the Engendering of Migration Studies," that our First-World views were not only Eurocentric but also male-centered.True to the reflexivity characterizing this vol ume, Pessar argues for recognition of the complexity of gender relations in im migration studies that address the power inequalities that place some women in the position of perpetuating the oppression of other women.Caroline B. Bret tell, in "Bringing the City Back In: Cities as Contexts for Immigrant Incorpora tion," reveals how urban spaces are not homogeneous and have different histories and structures that shape the receiving contexts for immigrant populations.Leo R. Chavez, in "Immigrants and Medical Anthropology," also argues that while the role of immigrants' cultures are important in understanding the provision and use of health care services, the reality of unequal political economies of health which immigrants join severely limits their access to health care.In "An thropologists, Migrants, and Health Research: Confronting Cultural Appropri ateness," Jennifer S. Hirsch proposes the need for a "liberation anthropology" to provide the foundation for ethical, "theoretically sophisticated research that raises critical policy questions" (p.232).In recent years immigrants have spurred debates concerning cultural relativism that challenge our legal system.Richard A. Schweder in "The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration" argues that cultural anthropologists must participate in these debates to take the immigrants' perspectives and inform the public in shaping a rigorous dialogue about these issues

Ethnography · Immigration · Medical anthropology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reflexivity · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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