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DDHR faculty and students study global and local issues across historical and geographical scales, bringing a critical focus to disasters, migration, displacement, the substantive struggles facing refugees and asylum seekers, and the relationship between these and social inequality.
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Brown’s interest in refugee systems began in UT’s Disasters,...
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Anthropology is a holistic study of the human species, past...
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29 lip 2024 · Topics addressed include the theory, methods and ethics of research with refugees and displaced people, international legal frameworks, the role of culture, political dynamics of refugee movements and internal displacement, and critical approaches to humanitarian responses.
27 lis 2017 · DDHR explores aspects of conflict and disasters in the human experience across several subdisciplines of anthropology. Since then, Brown studied with internationally recognized scholars, concentrating on the reasons that refugees become displaced and how they are governed in new countries.
26 kwi 2011 · Tricia Redeker Hepner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee writes at CounterPunch about the plight of refugees: The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan and the equally seismic political transformations shaking North Africa and the Middle East.
Anthropology is a holistic study of the human species, past and present. Anthropological inquiry ranges from the scientific (from genomics to pollen analysis) to the humanistic (from poetry to human rights).
Brown’s interest in refugee systems began in UT’s Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights (DDHR) program directed by Associate Professor of Anthropology Tricia Hepner. DDHR explores aspects of conflict and disasters in the human experience across several subdisciplines of anthropology.
This chapter examines the lived experience of forced migration and articulates anthropology’s unique contributions to the field of refugee and forced migration studies in documenting the impact of displacement and dispossession on refugees and exiles, their culture, and society.
