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Noel Salazar was unanimously elected as President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists for the period 2013-2014

2013-03-19After the January 2013 elections for a new executive committee, which Noel Salazar won with a large majority of votes, he was unanimously elected as President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists for the period 2013-2014.

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Research Area & Mission

IMMRC (Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre) conducts state-of-the-art anthropological analyses of topics related to mobility and minorities. It focuses on tangible and intangible relations, and borders. Through in-depth ethnographic study, the researchers disentangle the diversified relations and their global (dis)connections, with special attention for minorities and less visible community building.

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Topics & Current Projects

  • Mobilities (e.g. migration, identity, tourism, transnational students and professionals, transborder trade…)
  • Crossing boundaries (e.g. conversion, religious identifications, arts, healing & traditional medicine, development, gender, disability …)
  • Interculturalism and urban space (e.g. market places as global meeting place, ephemeral relations, entrepreneurship, mixed neighborhoods, multicultural festivals, education, …)

Fethullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies

Purpose of the Fethullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies - GCIS:

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