Integrating Strangers in Society: Perspectives from Elsewhere

By Jos D M Platenkamp

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030167054
• ISBN13: 9783030167059
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"