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  • THE BIOMETRIC BORDER WORLD
    KAREN FOG OLWIG / KRISTINA GRÜNENBERG / PERLE MØHL / ANJA SIMONSEN
    Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements. Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put ...

    $1,099.00

  • SMALL ISLANDS, LARGE QUESTIONS
    KAREN FOG OLWIG
    This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean. ...

    $1,559.00

  • MIGRATION, FAMILY AND THE WELFARE STATE
    KAREN FOG OLWIG
    Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the three receiving societies, studying how these are experienced by migrant and refug...

    $1,179.00

  • SITING CULTURE
    HASTRUP, KIRSTEN / OLWIG, KAREN FOG
    Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within glo...

    $1,099.00

  • WORK AND MIGRATION
    KAREN FOG OLWIG / NINNA NYBERG SORENSEN
    Using case-studies from those who have moved either transnationally or internally within their own country, international contributors offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move. ...

    $1,099.00