. Home provinces of interviewed migrants. Map created by the authors. It remains debatable whether this migration was voluntary (albeit state-sponsored) or somewhat coerced, but “nationalistic duty” certainly appears to have played an important role
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The (Re)Configuration of a Transit Country
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Ecuadorean Organic Law of Human Mobility in January 2017 filled a void by “regulating” the rights of and duties toward migrants and attempting to harmonize migration legislation with the constitution. For the first time, the new legislation explicitly
Religion through the Looking Glass
Fieldwork, Biography, and Authorship in Southwest China and Beyond
Katherine Swancutt
total biography, even down to my hobbies, for the sake of doing joint ethnological work, which in Ninglang includes civic duties, such as judging the Torch Festival competitions or helping with disaster relief in the event of mudslides and earthquakes
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A Discursive Analysis of a Century of Anthropological Writings on Missionary Ethnographers
Travis Warren Cooper
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Malaysian and Indonesian Responses to Australia's Migration and Border Policies
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surrounding the destruction of antiquities in Mosul in 2015, which explained that the very idea of cultural heritage served a nationalist agenda at odds with the fundamental duties of Muslims. According to IS, the obliteration of cultural heritage sites not
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(Squatters) Ordinance of 1918 further entrenched tenant duties of African populations working on European-occupied land and penalized failures to provide labor in accordance with existing legislation. The Employment of Natives Law, which included a series of
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Resources and Socio-cosmic Fields in Odisha, India
Roland Hardenberg
agriculture by its inhabitants. This land is collectively claimed by the kinship group that has a dominant position in the village. The members of this group are considered to be descendants of the original founders of the village, and it is their duty to