Anthropologists as Advocates for Immigrants and Refugees

CHAIR: HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)

ABSTRACT: This session addresses the pivotal role of anthropologists as advocates for the rights of migrants and refugees. Such roles include anthropologists as analysts of
comparative policies and practices that can assist asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in their struggle for human rights; as analysts of the intersection between advocacy
and ethnographically-drivenfieldwork among migrant populations in Qatar and neighboring GCC states;as challengers of the System of Sakoku in Japan; as educators of the
American public and policy makers to change anti-immigrant public discourse; as media campaigners against the fracturing of immigrant families caused by U.S. immigration
laws.
DISCUSSANTS: HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP), LOUCKY, James (W Wash U)

Session Participants:
RABBEN, Linda (Independent)
GARDNER, Andrew M. (U Puget Sound)
WILLIS, David Blake (Fielding Grad U)
FOXEN. Patricia (NCLR. American U)
HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.