List of tasks and readings (ANTH 331; Spring 2007)
By January 30
| Moorhead: through Chapter 3 |
| Task: Scan the news media for a story on refugees. Consider implications both about refugees and about the way refugee issues are selected and presented. |
By February 6
| Moorehead: through Chapter 6 |
| UNHCR: through page 29 |
| Task: Same as prior week except if you did something international last week, look for something within the country for this week (and vice versa) |
By February 13
| Moorehead: finish it |
| UNHCR: chapters 5 and 6 |
| Task: Pick 2 or 3 points in the Refugee Convention that would be most useful to a refugee advocate and 2 or 3 that would be most useful to somebody trying to avoid helping refugees (better yet if you can also anchor this in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) |
By February 20
| UNHCR: chapters 3 and 4 |
| Task: Pick an identifiable group of African refugees (e.g., Somali, Sudanese, Liberians) and do a little web research to see who these people actually are (age, sex, family, language, nationality, ethnicity, religion, class, occupation, education, etc.) |
By February 27
| UNHCR: chapters 2 and 7 |
| Task: No task this week |
| Remember: First paper is due on Thursday, March 1 (revised date) |
By March 20
| Get started on Holtzman |
By March 27
| Finish Holtzman |
| Task: Look at web site for the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. Analyze. (This is analogous to what you did for the UNHCR book on the last exam.) |
By April 3
| Fadiman: to page 105 |
| Task: Look at a web site for a voluntary agency resettling refugees or a foreign government's refugee resettlement program. Analyze. |