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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-06-01. It has received 4205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social organization & Ethnic group.read more
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16 Incentives to Return: Patterns of Policies and Migrants’ Responses:
TL;DR: In this century, and indeed throughout much of history, migrations between sovereign states have been subject to a variety of official controls as mentioned in this paper, and not all types of controls have seemed equally acceptable to policymakers or to domestic and international public opinion.
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Crossing the Sands, Crossing the Color Line: Non-Black Members of Black Greek Letter Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the social history and meaning of those instances when non-blacks have crossed a specific racial boundary in US college fraternities and sororities is explored.
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Desperately Seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading Ethnonyms and their Semantic Fields in African Identity Histories'
TL;DR: In this article, a temporally and semantically "deep" reading of African identity names reveals not only about the shifting meanings of ethnic naming over time but also about the nature and definition of ethnic identity itself.
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Symbolic boundaries and national borders: The construction of an Estonian Russian identity
TL;DR: For the republics of the former Soviet Union it was the construction and recognition of new walls in the form of new concrete barriers that symbolized freedom and freedom in Central Europe.
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Social development and transnational households: resilience and motivation for Albanian immigrants in Greece in the era of economic crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ways in which the Greek economic crisis has affected the social development of Albanian immigrants in both the sending and the host country, focusing on transnational households and family development projects and examining the degree of resilience and the power of motivation that drives people's reactions during the crisis, comparing first and second-generation immigrants.