Preservation of traditional environments in the face of migration and development

The post-World War II period has been called the age of migration, since an unprecedented number of people worldwide have been on the move. This reference surveys migration and imm...

This chapter will explore how children experienced a sense of community and family within the context of migration, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth century and the Vik...

This contribution to political anthropology, migration research, and postcolonial studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the migrant and settler socie...

There are three factors that persuade a migrant to cross borders: demand-pull in destination areas, supply-push in origin areas, and network factors that connect them. On the basis...

This introductory essay documents the data of Italian migration to the United States from 1945 to the present and offers organizational categories through which to better conceptua...

Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. It has been estimated at the turn of the millenni...

Traditional cultural properties are significant because of the role they play in the retention and transmission of historically rooted beliefs, customs, and practices of a living t...