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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
CORI (a section of the American Anthropological Association’s General Anthropology Division) publishes a series of peer-reviewed Selected Papers under rotating editorship.
_____Volume 9 (Negotiating Transnationalism), edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier (2001). Articles on: Nuer secondary migration; sojourner students; the politics of immigrant education; Vietnamese students' ethnic identity; language, literacy, and education among Cambodians; a critique of migrant classifications; Iraqi Kurds; child and family well-being for Guatemalan Maya; Brazilian immigrants and transnationalism; Samoan migrants in the U.S. and New Zealand; research, theory, and work in refugee communities.
_____Volume 8 (Rethinking Refuge and Displacement), edited by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Dianna J. Shandy (2000). Articles on: detainment of Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Naval Base; Somali integration and diasporic consciousness in Finland; Tibetan immigration to the United States; nationality and citizenship among Mexicans in the United States; environmentally forced migrants in rural Bangladesh; Operation Provide Refuge; Asylum Seekers' Centers in the Netherlands; forced migration and return of Kosovar Albanians; transnational research; anthropology and the representations of recent migrations from Afghanistan; anthropology of mobility; and gender and wartime migration in Mozambique.
_____Volume 7 (Negotiating Power and Place at the Margins), edited by Juliene G. Lipson and Lucia Ann McSpadden (1999). Articles on: education among Sawahari refugee women; key themes in the research on refugees, immigrants, and displacees; Bosnians remaining in Bosnia compared to those displaced to California; decisions about return among Eritrean refugees; diasporic processes among Koreans in Japan; Laotian use of cultural brokers in accessing U.S. public health institutions; the conceptualization by the host society of Latino newcomers in Georgia; gangs and Salvadoran youth in Washington, D.C.; and literacy development among Latino immigrant children in Los Angeles.
_____Volume 6 (Diasporic Identity), edited by Carol A. Mortland (1998). Articles on: biomedical transformations of Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants; contested categories among Brazilians in New York City and Rio de Janeiro; Buddhism and identity among Khmer Americans; honor and the asymmetrical efficiency of Turkish migration networks; nationalism and diasporic constructions of a homeland; an examination of Khmer Americans' sojourns in Cambodia; gender ideologies and domestic structures within the Garifuna diaspora; transnationalism and new Chinese immigrant families in the United States; experiences of Western women sojourners in India; issues regarding new Americans and domestic violence; Latino children becoming adolescents in Los Angeles; and personal reflections on career choice and practicing anthropology.
_____Volume 5 (Beyond Boundaries), edited by Diane Baxter and Ruth Krulfeld (1997). Articles on: return migration of Japanese Brazilians and Peruvians; missionaries and transnational identity among the Iu-Mien; self-empowerment among Lao women; Kosovo-Albanian refugees in Sweden; images of identity among Palestinian camp refugees; repatriation ambivalence among refugees from Yugoslavia; intergenerational stress among Iranian immigrants; realities and perceptions of crime among Vietnamese refugee businesses; and Middle Eastern immigrants in California.
_____Volume 4, edited by Ann M. Rynearson and James Phillips (1996). Articles on: health and Afghan refugees; refugee artists; repatriation of Maya from Mexico; psychological well-being of Armenian-Americans; Sudani in the mid-West; Soviet Pentecostals in Oregon; Maya in Los Angeles; Central American mothers’ emotional lives in Boston; refugees and the nation state in the Balkans; and refugee identity in Central America.
_____Volume 3, edited by Amy Zaharlick and Jeffery L. MacDonald (1994). Articles on: ethnic identity among Guatemalan Maya in Florida; refugee women as victims of human rights abuse; Romanian gypsies in Poland; Yugoslav women in Hungary; the structure of a Zimbabwe refugee camp; Salvadorans and Nicaraguans in Honduras; post Second World War German refugees; conflicts between American and Cambodian culture; undocumented Guatemalan women in Los Angeles; and the personal effects of refugee research in the United States.
_____Volume 2, edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy D. Donnelly (1993). Articles on: Burundi refugees in Tanzania; theoretical issues in refugee studies; public policy on Southeast Asian refugees; Cambodian life histories; Southeast Asian refugee camps; effects of dam construction in the Amazon; asylum seekers in Cairo; Vietnamese interpretations of "Western" medicine; self-settled refugees in Zambia; importance of mutual assistance associations; and the fertility of Lao refugees.
_____Volume 1, edited by Pamela A. Devoe (1992). Articles on: ethnic identity and the Laotian diaspora; elderly Afghans in northern California; ethnic German refugees since the Second World War; second-generation Latvians in Michigan; Khmer refugee adaptation in the mid-West and in Texas; career aspirations of Vietnamese college students; Angolans in Zambia; health of Southeast Asians in the mid-West; and two articles on Vietnamese in Hong Kong camps.
_____ CORI also published Refugee Empowerment and Organizational Change, edited by Peter W. Van Arsdale (1993). It includes chapters on: patron client relations and MAA's; grassroots advocacy by a Hmong education committee; Southeast Asian refugees and their employers in the Mid-West; Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees on the West Coast; an analysis of programs developed by Colorado's Spring Institute; urban employment projects for Salvadoran refugees in Costa Rica; Kurdish refugees in the Middle East; a comparison of two African resettlement strategies; the UNHCR and the refugee protection system; and introductory and concluding discussions.
CORI publications are available from the American Anthropological Association. All publications except for Volumes 4, 5, and 6 are $10.00 for non-members ($7.50 for members). Volume 4 is $12.50 for non-members ($10.00 for AAA members) and Volumes 5, 6, 7, and 8 are $15.00 ($12.50 for AAA members). You may use this page as an order form. Just check the volumes desired, indicate the price, and send a check or money order for the total to AAA, 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington VA 22203-1620.
For complete tables of contents for these publications, visit the General Anthropology Division's CORI book page or go directly to the AAA publications order form for information on special first class mailing, applicable tax for Virginia residents only, and discounts for bulk purchases.
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