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Malaysia houses the largest urban refugee population in Southeast Asia. Mainly ethnic minorities from Myanmar seek protection in Malaysia, which is not a signatory country to the UN refugee convention or protocol. Everyday realities for refugees are dictated by class and ethnic identity as refugees seek to make a life for themselves and their families in legal limbo.
Dr. Gerhard Hoffstädter, Anthropologe an der Universität Queensland in Australien steht am Montag, den 11. Januar 2016 um 17 Uhr am Berliner Zentrum Moderner Orient zum Thema für Fragen auf Deutsch und Englisch zur Verfügung.
Ethnographic material from Rohingya, Tamil and Chin communities will illustrate the contradictions and minor realities refugees carve out for themselves in spite of insufficient support and often debilitating rent-seeking.
Gerhard Hoffstaedter is an anthropologist at the University of Queensland. Currently he is researching urban refugees in Malaysia. His first book entitled Modern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia is published by NIAS Press. He is co-editor of a volume on human security and Australian foreign policy as well as one on Urban refugees.
For interviews, please get in touch in advance with nora.lafi@zmo.de, cc. yasser.mehanna@zmo.de
Das Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) unter Leitung der Nahost-Historikerin Prof. Ulrike Freitag ist die einzige Forschungseinrichtung Deutschlands, die sich inter-disziplinär und in historisch-vergleichender Perspektive mit dem Nahen Osten, Afrika, Zentralasien, Süd- und Südostasien befasst. Im Mittelpunkt der Forschung steht die Interaktion überwiegend islamisch geprägter Gesellschaften sowie deren Beziehungen mit den nicht-islamischen Nachbarregionen. Für die Aufnahme in den Medienverteiler des ZMO wenden Sie sich bitte an yasser.mehanna@zmo.de
http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2706 CV Dr. G. Hoffstaedter
http://www.zmo.de Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2015/urbanstudies/Urban_Studies_Seminar_Overvi... ZMO-Vorlesungsreihe zu 'Flüchtlinge in den Städten'
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