Belonging

Belonging: Kinship imagery and the nation-state in Europe and beyond

Ryan Schram

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

8 October 2015

Available at: http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/10

Lecture outline

• “Care for a homeless”: What do you think?
• Multiculturalism: What images come into your mind?
• Immigration: What images do you see?
  • Assimilation
  • Multiculturalism
• Refugees
• The meaning of blood in defining European nations, and Australia
  • Jus sanguinis
  • Jus soli
• Haitians in the Dominican Republic, 2015
• France as a nation
• Finland as a nation
• How constructs of kinship shape the construction of immigration, national identity and multiculturalism

#RefugeesWelcome in Ireland: A viral poster

“You don't want refugees here?”, Image of a poster collected from Facebook, October 4, 2015.