ANT2128 - 21th March

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Oct 30, 2023

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ANT2128 21TH MARCH Your thesis statement has to be an argument. Specification is key. You have to start with a broad topic then you narrow it till you get a very specific argument that can be summed up in a sentence. After that you start proving and defending your argument. THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL BORDERLANDS OF GLOBAL MIGRATION The borders of Europe, whether they are the actual borders of Europe or the externalized borders of Europe that have been pushed out to other areas, end up with these kind of scenes where on one side there are the guards, high fences covered in razor wire, trying to dissuade anyone from coming over and on the other side we have immigrants. Often there are two rows of fences, so that there's a bit of a no man's land where the guards can drive through the center and pick up people if they make it over the First Fence. A lot of them end up cut up and bruised and beaten from taking the first fence that they just sort of give up in between and are collected and then you get what's called pushbacks where they end up bringing them back outside the fence and dumping them where they came from. You also even get systems of pushbacks especially when you're looking at Eastern Europe. Migrants don't want to claim asylum in the first countries they come into because then they have to be processed there and the aim is that they would actually stay there for some time and they're

trying to move to Western Europe where there's actually job opportunities and things like that so they'll go illegally, they'll change passports that will help them get across. They pay people to smuggle them over or they try multiple times to sneak past certain border fences. The author talks about the idea of being a refugee and a migrant just the whole process as you've seen in other chapters. The things that we take for granted, he is sort of revisiting them and also he is talking about the ethics involved in doing this kind of work. The other conflict going on here is the idea of migration as destructive, uprooting people, and as a sort of the inevitable outcome of globalized flows increasing in a globalized world. He says that Anthropologists, particularly looking at post World War II African urbanization, were really focused on these discussions and then for a decade or two Anthropologists largely went silent on the idea of the topic of migration until the 90s. Because of a number of motivations some migrants will really perform their role in this theatrical play out of what a rush of migrants looks. Then the author talks about some of the unexpected aspects of this how you know having a migrant can't put in your region especially in smaller countries means that on the way to some of the sort of bigger countries that most of these people are helping to get to it means it brings money to your region which means either you know there are some politicians and people like that who are really focused on actually having these in their areas even if it's too much to the Chagrin of the locals and then he also talks about some sort of you know some other aspects like just the the actual travel itself and how it comes and also the non-travel being stuck in camps and how this sort of starts to change people's opinions of themselves their own senses of identity their own senses of power or lack of power how you know what I mean you've probably seen stories of people

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