American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration

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Index Page references followed by t indicates a table; followed by fig indicates an illustrated figure. 3 k workers (Japan), 57 AAA (American Anthropological Association), 232, 265 Abelmann, N., 173 academic achievement. See immigrant academic achievement The Academic Orientation of Immigrant and Native Minorities project (1995), 132. See also Haitian immigrant youth accommodation without assimilation, 74n.6 acculturation: debate over, 67–71; defining, 67; health behaviors changed through, 206–7 Adler, R., 15 African Americans: health disparities suffered by, 242; relationships between immigrants and, 194nn.10, 12; “urban apartheid” legacy and, 189–90 Ahmadu, F., 290–91 Alba, R., 35 American Anthropological Association (AAA), 232, 265 “American Apartheid,” 67 American Indians: Employment Division v. Smith case on use of peyote by, 281–82, 293; impact of European contact for, 199–200; medicinal knowledge acquired from, 200 Amish schooling lawsuit, 270–78, 280–81 Anderson, B., 122 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 100 Anthropological Quarterly (1976 special issue), 15 anthropological studies: of changing social/cultural patterns, 17–18; comparative approaches to, 38–41, 252–53; early transnational migration, 16–17, 99; history of US immigration, 14–22; incorporation of social surveys in, 26–27; liberation anthropology framework used in, 231–32, 242–44; as part of interdisciplinary exchanges in immigration, 5–9, 75–76, 103–4, 158–59; push to interdisciplinary work vs. pull of discipline in, 23–25; question of culture in migrant, 31–38; transnational migration and gender dynamics used in, 38–41. See also ethnographic research; immigration studies; medical anthropology studies Anthropological Theory, 110 anthropologists: approach to globalization taken by, 48–54; confronting challenges of migrant research for, 229–32; contributions to study of immigration by, 54–55; criticisms made against founding, 8; human rights activists among, 265; on implications of population movements , 113–14; as pioneering development of feminist theory, 76. See also ethnographers; feminist ethnographers anthropology: adoption of other discipline methods by, 9; Chicago school of, 158–59, 171–73; classical traditions of, 25; community study method of, 114–15; diffusionist school of, 114; early post-war years of immigration study and, 9–14; immigrant academic achievement issues addressed through, 133–37, 155–59; liberation, 231–32, 242–44; Manchester school of, 16, 115; new subdiscipline of urban, 7–8; professional identification/reading of “Other” by, 199, 266; on race category, 160n.7; on scope/limits of tolerance, 264–66; transformation of traditional constituency of, 7. See also urban anthropology 358 anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) activism, 286–87, 288, 290 anti-immigrant sentiment: as political and social issue, 47–48; Proposition 187 (California) and, 47, 217–18; US debate over medical services and, 197–99, 217–18 Appadurai, A., 101 Arensberg, C., 108 Asad, T., 9 assimilation: accommodation without, 74n.6; criticism of, 34–35; drive towards destructive integrity as demand for, 261–64; paradoxes of, 35; predicting sector of immigration , 73n.4 asylum seekers: new state strategies for dealing with, 61; state regulation of, 60–61 Atlanta: high rates of construction fatalities in, 253; Hispanic Health Coalition of, 37–38, 249–50; “postmodern ” city image of, 185 Atlanta Journal Constitution, 241 the authority of religious conscience interpretation: described, 271; Wisconsin v. Yoder court decision use of, 280–81 autonomous immigrant minorities, 133, 160n.5 Bandura’s theory of behavioral change, 223 Basch, L., 15, 16, 101 Berger, J., 77 Between Two Cultures (Watson), 13 Between Two Islands (Pessar), 24 Bezruchka, S., 225 Bill 101 (Quebec), 186 biomedicine: American Indian medicinal knowledge contributions to, 200; “competence gap” and immigrant/physician relations , 211; conflict between immigrant cultures and US, 201–2t, 203–8; as cultural system, 200–201; evolution from Cartesian mind-body dichotomy, 201; negotiating modernity through, 250–52; studies on access to two-tiered system of, 215–22. See also medical care services birth control practices, 248 Blanc-Szanton, C., 101 Boas, F., 10, 49, 198 Bourne, R., 100 breast cancer: immigrant beliefs regarding, 208–11, 210t; medical interventions for, 223 Brennan, D., 95 Brennan, W., 262–63 Brettell, C. B., 10, 18, 24, 34, 163 Brown, A., 189 Bruner, E., 12 Buechler, J.-M., 15 Bureau of Primary Health Care, 239 Burger, W. E., 274 California’s Proposition 187, 47, 217–18 Caribbean Life in New York City (Sutton and Chaney), 14 Cary, F., 189 caste-like minorities, 133–34 Caste in Overseas Indian Communities (Schwartz), 13 CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 37, 229 Chaney, E., 14 Chavez, L. R., 18, 20, 37...