Migration and Immigration
Virtual Issues showcase articles on topics of contemporary relevance from the archives of American Anthropologist.
This issue on migration and immigration supplements the June 2017 print issue, which features three articles on immigration: “Temporal Patterns of Mexican Migrant Genetic Ancestry: Implications for Identification” by Cris E. Hughes, Bridget F. B. Algee-Hewitt, Robin Reineke, Elizabeth Clausing, and Bruce E. Anderson; “Uncertain Futures: The Unfinished Houses of Undocumented Migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico” by Iván Sandoval-Cervantes; and “Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza (A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community” by Hilary Parsons Dick.
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Over the past several decades, American Anthropologist has featured important contributions to scholarly and public debates around migration and immigration, national borders, refugees and asylum, and more, including a recent Vital Topics Forum, “On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate.” To highlight the long history of engagement by anthropologists on these issues, contributing editors Jaime Sykes and Emily Weisenberger, along with managing editor Sean Mallin, curated this set of articles, which ranges from a classic study by Franz Boas on bodily form among immigrants to more recent work on refugee camps in Kenya and reflections on the public role of anthropologists in speaking against xenophobia.
This list represents only a handful of the articles that the journal has published on these issues; it is by no means exhaustive. But it is a good place start. And we hope it inspires your own search through the journal’s archives (Anthrosource is a great tool for this!). We invite you to list some of your findings in the comments section.
Articles (available through Anthrosource for free until October 2017)
Boas, Franz. 1912. “Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants.”
Mayer, Philip. 1962. “Migrancy and the Study of African Towns.”
Anthony, David W. 1990. “Migration and Archaeology: The Baby and the Bathwater.”
Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2005. “Being En Route.”
Cameron, Catherine. 2013. “How People Moved among Ancient Societies: Broadening the View.”