Anthropology
The organization I have worked for this semester is Lutheran Family Services, inparticular, refugee services. This organization relocates refugees, the ones I worked with are from Sudan, Africa. A 20 year civil war has been raging in Sudan leaving families displaced and relocated. The war is between the Northern Sudanese (mostly Arab Muslims-also in control of the government) and the Southern Sudanese (mostly indigenous people of Nuer and Dinka 'tribes'). The Southern Sudanese do not recognize the government except when forced to. White missionaries come to Southern Sudan to aid these people while converting them to Christianity (and furthering their God's/or religion's own agenda). Bior (a boy I work with) told me, "we like the white people in Sudan, they come to help us build things." The Southern Sudanese have been cosntantly attacked and often fled to neighboring Kenya. Even in Kenya refugee camps the Southern Sudanese have been attacked by their Arab enemies. The Northern Sudanese are largely Arab Muslims who control the government. The government is seen as artificial to the indigenous population. The government attempts to collect taxes and impose laws on those in Southern Sudan. Resista
The organization gives me sheets to monitor my progress. Globalization can be seen: they wear Sudanese jewelry, listen to Sudanese tapes as they sit in their American house watching American television (watching African soccer games on RAI-Intenational television). The pictures document their lives while the pervasive media tells them what's happening that's important to the dominant press (that they are supposed to take interest in, i. The boys went from their birthplace, to refugee camps, to the USA. It opposes the pictures in Newsweek showing Sudanese refugees standing in grocery stores (refugees from an impoverished nation standing in the midst of their new 1st world countries abundance-the supermarket). Protectionists (upset with globalization lowering 1st world standards and shifting resources) might be upset over resources being allocated to these people from outside the United States. The boys want pictures taken of themselves for pleasure. This also lets them construct their own identities in agreement or opposition to their groups (their's the problem, taking people as a group) depiction in major media articles on the influx of Sudanese refugees. The boys were set up in Philadelphia with foster parents and enrolled in public schools. This shows the (positive) effects of globalization, a Lutheran based service in Philadelphia is able to work out an arrangement to transport those in peril to the United States. It is tough to say how this furthers the goals of Lutheran Family Services. They were next setup to come to the United States. It gives them access to technologies probably not as prevalent in Sudan. In the circumstances I have described up to here we can see motors of change that align with many of the theorist's we have read.
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