Committee on Refugees & Immigrants

The Committee on Refugees & Immigrants (CORI) focuses on the global problems of forced dislocation, the provision of asylum and resettlement to refugees, and the adjustment of immigrants. CORI is part of the American Anthropological Association’s Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).

CORI's web pages were maintained at George Mason University from 1997 to 2003 but have now been moved to SUNTA's web site: www.sunta.org/cori

Awards . . Membership . . Publications . . Officers and Contacts

CORI Awards:

Lifetime Achievement Award to Beatrice Nied Hackett (presented in 1998)

2000 Distinguished Paper Prize to Jennie Smith

1999 Distinguished Paper Prize to Shelley Wagner Beirouk

1998 Distinguished Paper Prize to Judy L. Ledgerwood

1997 Distinguished Paper Prize to Keiko Yamanaka

1996 Distinguished Paper Prize to Juliene G. Lipson and Patricia A. Omidian

1994 Distinguished Paper Prize to Nancy Wellmeier

1993 Distinguished Paper Prize to Marc Sommers

1992 Distinguished Paper Prize jointly to Ruth Krulfeld, Juliene G. Lipson, and Patricia A. Omidian

Membership:

There are three classes of membership in CORI:

Full membership: Based on membership in the AAA’s Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). Full members have all rights including voting and holding elective office.

Associate membership: Based on membership in the American Anthropological Association without membership in the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). Associate members have all rights, including voting, except that they may not hold elective office.

Affiliate membership: Does not require AAA membership. Affiliate members are welcome to participate in CORI activities but do not have voting rights and cannot hold elective or appointive office.

No separate dues are currently required for membership. If you wish to join, email your name and address to Dianna Shandy Be sure to indicate the class of membership: full, associate, or affiliate.

Publications:

CORI publishes a series of peer-reviewed Selected Papers under rotating editorship.

Currently available volumes are:

Volume 9 (Negotiating Transnationalism), edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier (2001).

Volume 8 (Rethinking Refuge and Displacement), edited by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Dianna J. Shandy (2001).

Volume 7 (Negotiating Power and Place at the Margins), edited by Juliene G. Lipson and Lucia Ann McSpadden (1999).

Volume 6 (Diasporic Identity), edited by Carol Mortland (1998).

Volume 5 (Beyond Boundaries), edited by Diane Baxter and Ruth Krulfeld (1997).

Volume 4, edited by Ann M. Rynearson and James Phillips (1996).

Volume 3, edited by Amy Zaharlick and Jeffery L. MacDonald (1994).

Volume 2, edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy D. Donnelly (1993).

Volume 1, edited by Pamela A. Devoe (1992).

CORI also published Refugee Empowerment and Organizational Change, edited by Peter W. Van Arsdale (1993).

These publications are available from the American Anthropological Association. Write to AAA, 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington VA 22203-1620 or go to the CORI Publications Page for more details and a link to an order form.

Officers and Contacts:

Executive Committee:

Debbie Boehm, Co-Chair

Julia Meredith Hess, Co-Chair

Greta Uehling, Secretary

Lucia McSpadden, Program Chair

Kathy Carlin-Kilbourne, Program Assistant

Elzbieta Gozdziak, Membership/PR Co-Coordinator

Dianna Shandy, Membership/PR Co-Coordinator

Laura Hammond, AN Correspondent

Inquiries to:

Julia Meredith Hess or Debbie Boehm.

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