Innovative Approaches in Immigration Research (Migration & Int’l Dialogue TIG)

Innovative Approaches in Immigration Research

(Migration & Int’l Dialogue TIG)

 

CHAIR: HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU)

HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU) Applied Anthropology

Aiding Refugees and Asylum Seekers

KNAUER, Lisa Maya (UMass-Dartmouth)

Anthropological Knowledge and Immigrant Justice:

Turning Activist Anthropology into Activist Pedagogy

SOSA, Gloria (CSULA) Decolonizing Research through

the Analysis of Undoculeaders’ Oral Histories

MONTANOLA, Silvana (UMD) Navigating Legal Deservingness within Latinx Immigration Advocacy in

the DMV

 

HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU) Applied Anthropology Aiding Refugees and Asylum

Seekers. With over 2.2 million refugees in the world today, there are diverse

ways that applied anthropologists can aid refugees and asylum seekers. Applied

anthropologists bring the weight of anthropological inquiry, expert witness,

narrative analysis, network building, and community engagement to the role of

helping refugees and asylum seekers. Medical anthropologists bring the ability to

elucidate trauma narratives of survivors of war. This work builds upon a history

of over 30 years of engagement with refugees including Arabs, Sudanese, and

Somalis in research conducted in Metropolitan Detroit and Lansing, Michigan.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.