2024-03-29T10:04:59Z
http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/do/oai/
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1000
2008-10-27T19:50:14Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Cultural Heroes and Mirrors of Darker Desires: Transitioning Tricksters of Our Past into Contemporary Society
Nadelberg, Laura R.
Honors Paper
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
trickster
folklore
anthropology
This paper is concerned with the trickster character, and its major importance and existence cross culturally, as well as in contemporary society. Many individuals are confused as to what exactly a trickster is. This paper will attempt to explain its nature in terms of defining characteristics. Although the trickster is generally thought of a lost icon or an extinct character, this paper will show that it is very much alive and well in today’s culture.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/1
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1001
2009-05-16T15:24:31Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Diasporic Identities in Israel: A Study of Ethiopian Jews
Roberts, Erich S
Honors Paper
2009-05-01T07:00:00Z
Israel
transnational identity
Ethiopian Jews
marginalization
Contemporary concerns of anthropology stress the role of power relations in framing the study of a marginalized people within society. In this study, the present predicament of the Ethiopian community in Israel is examined through the highly political processes of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and identity construction. Each of these factors hold implications for the ways by which a dominant European nationalist ideology in Israel has come to impose forces of authority upon subjugated, non-European ethnic groups. The Ethiopians are one such group. The point of divergence between the community of Ethiopian Jews and Israel’s national identity has caused the Ethiopian youth to rebel, resist, and construct their identity both globally and spatially. This phenomenon creates a significant dependence on the behavior of prominent communities in the African diaspora. The structure of this paper aims to illustrate the transnational identity of these youths as a response to Israel’s decision to ideologically orient itself toward Western, capitalist values. Zionism’s original foundation took root in precepts prevalent in the European Enlightenment, such as socialism and Marxism. My work, however, reveals a distinct Ethiopian perspective that today views the nation-state as a source of much conflict. This paper emphasizes conceptions of the field in anthropology, as well as the practices of fieldwork. It also, however, engages fieldwork itself to explore the specific role of space in the lives and imaginings of Ethiopian youth.
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/2
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1002
2011-05-30T18:36:49Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
“Enemies of Life in the Name of Life”: Seed Patents, GM Crops, and the Global South
Arenson, Patricia
Honors Paper
2011-01-01T08:00:00Z
India
Genetically Modified Crops
patents
seeds
Vandana Shiva
<p>In the past few decades agribusiness in the global North has developed a booming industry in genetically modified (GM) crops; industry giants have secured patents and aggressively protected them to maximize profits. This new technology has been exported to the Global south, where its introduction has caused a cascade of horrific problems for farmers and non-‐farmers alike. GM crops and seed patents have exacerbated poverty, accelerated the loss of indigenous knowledge, and threatened to destroy ecosystems through the loss of biodiversity. This honors thesis explores these issues with a focus on the situation in India, where Vandana Shiva has led the fight for seed sovereignty, biodiversity, and farmers' rights.</p>
2011-05-30T07:00:00Z
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Anthropology
Asian Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/3
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1003
2012-05-18T20:42:28Z
publication:anthropology
publication:anthrohp
Exploring Ecotourism in New Caledonia
Paddon, Anakena
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2012-01-01T08:00:00Z
2012-05-18T07:00:00Z
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/4
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1004
2013-05-22T15:25:44Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Situating Street Kids: An Ethnography of Nomadic Street Kids in Portland, Oregon
deLise, Elizabeth
Honors Paper
2013-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>Homelessness in the United States has been widely researched in the social sciences. Only within the last 20 years have ethnographic studies focused on street kids, a youth subculture. Some of this work has emphasized the transience of street kid lifeways and problematized the street kid lifestyle, an approach that has rendered street kids as victims. More recently, social scientists have refocused their analytic lens on the ways that street kids are agents of their own actions and understood only within the context of past events that shaped decisions to live on the street. This thesis aligns with the latter body of research and focuses specifically on street kid subculture in Portland, Oregon. I argue that a nomadic lifestyle is the cornerstone of street kid ethos and a meaningful site for framing a general disenchantment with mainstream American culture. Despite this disenchantment, I argue that street kid lifeways are better regarded as a subculture rather than a counterculture. To this end, I explore the ways that street kid identity is shaped by facets of their nomadic and communal lifestyle, dependent on the American mainstream, and ultimately impermanent. All data was collected during summer 2012 in Portland, Oregon through participant observation and interviews.</p>
2013-05-22T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/6
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1005
2015-05-22T15:36:03Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Halq'eméylem Language Revitalization: Tracing Ideologies in Hybridity
Rao, Sonya
Honors Paper
2013-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>Recently, indigenous language revitalization has gained attention from Western media and charitable organizations, a process that has depoliticized the history of indigenous languages. One result of this is the naturalization of the ideological projects that put Native languages at risk, as well as the practices that hinder their revival. I focus on how the scientific and intellectual project of linguistics can dispossess elements of Native languages from its speakers, using it as capital for its own objectives. I show that the history of speech communities shapes the language ideologies that inform choices in the revitalization process, the restraints under which revivalists operate, and their potential for success. I espouse the notion that language can be commoditized, I examine the historical implications of scientific authority, language technologies, and language ideologies in the creation of markets that are closed to language activists. In particular, I examine the consequences of the ideological project of linguistics as it took hold in language revitalization programs in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. By examining the role of ideology in language revival, I locate moments of hybridity in communal beliefs about the Halq'eméylem language in order to describe the transformation of language into capital, which is exchanged on an emerging market of language revitalization funding.</p>
2013-05-22T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/5
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1006
2014-06-10T13:47:31Z
publication:anthropology
publication:anthrohp
Food, Language, and Tango: Embodiment of Italian Transnationalism in Argentina
Lindsay, Hillary
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2013-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>We live in a dynamic world of constant movement and interaction. Due to such dynamics, both people and their nationalities are mobile, resulting in the creation of transnationalism. Transnationalism is the concept that national identities extend beyond borders. This concept is illustrated by the Italians in the aftermath of their mass migration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around the world, especially to North and South America. The particular focus of this honors thesis is on Italian transnationalism in Argentina. My research was completed in Italy, Argentina, and the United States beginning in 2010. In Buenos Aires during the summer of 2012, I conducted fieldwork using an anthropological framework and experimental methods of ethnography, placing the self within the research. I examine the history, trends, and patterns of migration, and how the transnationalist experience of the Italian immigrants in Argentina became embodied in food, language, and tango. I use historical narrative, firsthand accounts and personal experience to discover the cultural realities of transnationalism and the human experience of immigration.</p>
2013-05-23T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Latin American Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/7
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1007
2014-05-23T11:44:56Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Language Ideologies in Morocco
Bullock, Sybil
Honors Paper
2014-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>The process of decolonization in Morocco has created new spaces for displaying national identity, most notably through the development of official policies regarding the acquisition, promotion, and performance of language in the public sphere. The flow of languages into the Moroccan linguistic mosaic has facilitated the transmission of beliefs about language as well. These beliefs are far from neutral, for each language possesses symbolic capital that grants access to explicitly demarcated domains of power. In this thesis, I examine the construction of national power that resides in discourses on multilingualism in Morocco. In the process, I uncover the sources of competing language ideologies through which beliefs about national identity are negotiated. I show that the project of establishing and maintaining power depends largely on the control of language reproduction. By focusing on forms of familial, ethnic, national, and religious power embedded in Morocco’s languages, I locate the sites in which language ideologies are enacted and reveal the consequences of internalized linguistic imperialism.</p>
2014-05-20T07:00:00Z
African Languages and Societies
Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/11
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1008
2016-05-20T15:14:51Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
"Manufacturing” Community: Solidarity, Profit, and the Bar Owner
Hartshorn, Timothy
Honors Paper
2014-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>The following study examines the potential of eight independently run bars in New London, Connecticut to “manufacture” community. This process is examined with particular focus on the tension felt by bar owners, who must continually attract new patrons while still keeping their current “regulars” content. Inherent to this study is the reexamination of “community” as an analytically useful term in anthropological scholarship, with particular emphasis on disproportionate feelings of belonging and commitment as manifested by individual interpretation of collectively rendered symbols.</p>
<p>This data for this study was collected by virtue of semi-structured interviews as well as ethnographic field observation. The owner (or, in one case, the manager) of each bar on which the study is focused was interviewed twice. First interviews largely consisted of descriptive questions, while structural questions comprised the majority of second interviews. Interviews were transcribed and then analyzed by virtue of domain analyses and folk taxonomies. Field note-taking was divided into two distinct stages: that of unfocused notes, which concerned anything and everything discernible within a bar, and that of focused notes, which concerned a single behavioral pattern.</p>
<p>Analysis of my data indicates that a bar may “manufacture” community by encouraging patrons to identify with one another, the establishment’s owner, and the owner’s ideal bar environment. The bar owners interviewed for this study facilitate such feelings of identification, in part, by targeting specific “crowds” of patrons with whom they identify. Furthermore, these individuals remain highly visible within their respective establishments and, as a result, promote the continual reproduction of a specific bar atmosphere. This atmosphere is the product of such elements as music, décor, and television programming, but primarily emerges as a result of social interaction. The bar owners on which this study is focused make it a point to interact with their patrons on a regular basis. In so doing, they promote normative models of social behavior. The role of these individuals can be said to harbor a considerable tension, however, as, along with reproducing regularity, they must continually seek new patronage (albeit to varying extents) as a means of remaining in business. As such, the need to make a profit is often juxtaposed to “community” in the language of both bar owners and bar patrons.</p>
<p>Based on the interview and observational data that I collected, I conclude that the propensity of bars involved with this study to garner feelings of solidarity and belonging among patrons does, indeed, enable them to “manufacture” community. Although the interpretation of symbols (“hipster,” “alternative,” “neighborhood bar,” etc.) associated with bar communities unavoidably varies between individual patrons, bar owners encourage similarity across such interpretations by, again, remaining visible within their respective establishments. The owners of the eight bars examined in this study, through both conversation and other forms of behavior, publicize their own interpretations of the community identities “manufactured” within their respective establishments. As new bar patrons become more familiar with a bar owner and this individual’s regular clientele, they will be encouraged to align their own interpretations of community identity with those of more seasoned community members. By encouraging interpretive unity among patrons (with the understanding that this can never be fully achieved), bar owners navigate the tension between novelty and cyclicality. Although some bar owners encourage “diversity” within their main crowd in terms of ethnic or cultural backgrounds, they also attempt to assimilate new patrons into their respective communities as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Prompt assimilation reduces the potential for disruption in the regular schedule of a bar.</p>
2014-05-20T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/10
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1009
2016-05-20T15:24:20Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
‘The Hole’ Exposed: Voices on Solitary Confinement in the American Prison System
Schnitman, Sarah
Honors Paper
2014-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>Solitary confinement, as practiced within the United States penal system, is a form of imprisonment that is rarely studied within the field of anthropology due to the nature of isolated prisoners as highly inaccessible subjects. Details about the physical appearance of such isolation units and the range of effects reported over the years by inmates and activist organizations have been largely veiled to the general public. However, scholars, political bodies, and the press began to pick up conditions of solitary confinement as an issue of inhumane treatment and torture. Although forms of isolated imprisonment have been used in the United States since the late nineteenth century, solitary confinement has grown to be a highly disputed practice within the last forty years. This thesis takes an indepth look into the goals and efforts of people within a growing national community who are connected by a shared aim of abolishing solitary confinement. This community seeks to spread awareness about what it believes to be a brutal and antiquated violation of human rights as its support base grows within the larger social justice movement of prison reform. I argue for the importance of bringing to light a new body of stories to better understand the parallel activism work undertaken in multiple fields in opposition to solitary confinement. This study exposes the practice through the lens of ex-prisoners, activists, filmmakers, lawyers, professors, and architects. These individuals are based in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, and California. Their voices echo the wider range of impact that solitary confinement can have on individuals both on the inside and outside of prison walls, demonstrating that both perspectives merit attention.</p>
2014-05-20T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/9
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1010
2014-05-20T16:07:17Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Ecotourism in the Galápagos Islands: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Tourism
Wellbeloved-Stone, Claire
Honors Paper
2014-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>This project originated my sophomore year as my application to the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA). In my search for a project that would relate to anthropology and the Galápagos Islands I discovered the potential to study the tourism industry and its effects on society. Over the course of three years the project developed from a proposal as part of my application to CISLA to an internship and an honors thesis.</p>
<p>The focus of this thesis is the study of ecotourism in the Galápagos Islands, with a concentration on the interaction between tourists and residents and influence of tourism on the local population. I outline the history, geology, and geography of the islands to provide the reader with a base knowledge. In order to understand the complex societal relationship with tourism it is crucial to understand the history that led to the success of the tourism industry today. I review the anthropology of tourism, ecotourism in Costa Rica as a model, and the tourism industry in the Galápagos. Finally, I conclude the thesis with my own findings through surveys and an interview conducted while on Isabela for my internship.</p>
2014-05-20T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Environmental Policy
Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/8
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1011
2015-05-22T17:07:45Z
publication:anthropology
publication:anthrohp
Playing at Home: Fenway Park and Cultural Performance
Clay, Bo
Restricted
2015-01-01T08:00:00Z
2015-05-22T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Sports Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/12
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1012
2017-09-11T22:37:13Z
publication:anthropology
publication:anthrohp
Eating Halal in Spain: Muslim Immigrant Identity and the Restaurant Space
Riesz, Leela
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2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>This thesis illuminates how food is inextricably linked to identity in the migration context. It uses food and the restaurant space as a lens through which to trace the experiences of Muslim immigrants in Southern Spain, primarily restaurant owners and workers from Pakistan and Morocco. It investigates Muslim immigrants’ negotiation of their religious and cultural identity vis-à-vis their halal food practices. Spain offers a unique and intriguing case study because Muslims’ halal food practices conflict with Spain’s food culture, namely its reliance on pork. I highlight Muslims’ dependence on the kebab industry, a halal food establishment run predominantly by Pakistanis. In fact, this halal/pork tension between Spanish and Muslim foodways, what I refer to as two “conflicting food cultures,” is historically rooted. Moreover, I turn my attention to the treatment of the halal concept on the national stage. Investigating how halal is taken up by politicians to construct anti-immigrant narratives demonstrates its role as a signifier for foreignness and the Muslim “other.” Thus, halal is both a window into Muslim immigrants’ lived experience and an indication of Spain and various European nations’ visions of its Muslim community. In addition, examination of this halal consciousness in the school setting reiterates the power of the two food cultures barrier, demonstrates Spain’s place in a larger European halal debate, and draws attention to an emerging pro-halal movement in Spain. Furthermore, this research looks at the restaurant as a locale for the negotiation of identity and cultural representation. Immigrants’ desire to position themselves and their community in particular ways is expressed in the kebab and Moroccan restaurant space. Owing to Pakistanis’ and Moroccans’ different immigration contexts and Moroccans’ distinct historical legacy in Spain, the nature of these restaurateurs’ identity work varies. However, their work is ultimately connected to place-making and reconciling the cultural, religious, and gastronomic tensions between Spaniards and Muslims.</p>
2016-05-20T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/13
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1014
2017-06-12T18:48:50Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
The City Where the Storks Fly: Sustainable Agriculture and Species Reintroduction in Toyooka City, Japan
Kobayashi, Nako
Honors Paper
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>In 1971, the Oriental White Stork went locally extinct in Toyooka, Japan. Today, around 80 of the birds fly free throughout the city. Toyooka uses the Stork Reintroduction Project and the promotion of “Stork-Friendly” agriculture to help combat the difficulties faced as a rural Japanese municipality including population decline, increased farmland abandonment, and falling rice prices. This thesis investigates how Toyooka City uses a pragmatic approach to achieve holistic sustainability that works within the framework of our current globalized cultural, political, social and economic landscape. By drawing on the fieldwork I conducted in Toyooka as well as the informal and formal conversations I had with farmers, government officials, employees of Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) and others, I illustrate how Toyooka has worked towards building a socially and environmentally sound community with an emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices. Placing Toyooka’s efforts today within the larger context of Japan’s history and the constantly evolving cultural context, I explore the role of environmentalism and sustainable agriculture within today’s Japanese society.</p>
2017-06-12T07:00:00Z
Environmental Sciences
Ornithology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/15
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1015
2018-05-14T18:14:27Z
publication:anthropology
publication:anthrohp
Understanding the Effects of the Inherent Patriarchal Structures in League of Legends
Rissmiller, John
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2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>In 2009 League of Legends was created by Riot Games. By 2016 it became the world’s most popular video game with a vibrant international professional scene. However, the only woman to ever compete professionally stepped down after two months because of the harassment she faced from members of the community. This thesis investigates how Riot developers reproduce sexism in the creative process of the game through their presentation of female characters. It investigates the impact of the patriarchal structures on the experience of women streamers and cosplayers through semi structured interviews and participant observation over the summer of 2017. Placing this work in larger discussion of digital anthropology, this thesis explores a video game that has yet to be studied. Furthermore, I use this information to provide feedback for Riot games, in the hopes that they dismantle the sexism built into their game.</p>
2018-05-14T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/17
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1016
2018-05-14T18:26:29Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
Y’en a Marre! Hip-Hop Culture and Social Mobilization in Post Colonial Senegal
Latuner, Lucie
Honors Paper
2018-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>After over fifty years since decolonization, Senegal is seen as a success story in establishing democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. However, due to neocolonialism, Senegal is still far from independent, and its leaders are still working against the interests of their people. Emerging out of a history of anti-imperialist mobilization, young rappers continue a transnational struggle against imperialism in reference to the ideology of revolutionaries before them. These rappers and journalists, drawing on a sense of responsibility to a historical, multigenerational fight, unite to create the movement Y’en a Marre—a movement of civic mobilization to oppose their authoritarian government and fight for liberation—that through community-based initiatives, takes charge of the issues at hand to transform their discourse into concrete action. Based on research conducted in Dakar, Senegal, over the summer of 2017, this paper addresses the ways in which engaged rap in Senegal embodies a sense of responsibility to transnational anti-colonial discourse that embraces a global black identity, challenges marginality, and engages in political critique, which, through the creation of organizations and movements such as Y’en a Marre, contributes to a project of African development outside of the Western framework. Through the analysis of the movement Y’en a Marre that arises out of a politically conscious rap scene, and their shared goals with other civil society organizations, this study seeks to illuminate the systems of oppression faced by the Senegalese people living in a neocolonial state, but most importantly seeks to highlight the strong intellectual and artistic forms of resistance that arise despite economic hardship, to ask pertinent questions about government, leadership, and Africa’s role in a global world.</p>
2018-05-14T07:00:00Z
African Languages and Societies
Anthropology
Music
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/16
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1017
2020-05-13T18:08:57Z
publication:anthropology
publication:honors
publication:anthrohp
The Altar of National Prosperity: Extractivism and Sacrifice Zones in Argentine Patagonia
Gomez-Pereira, Jonathan
Honors Paper
2020-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>The advances in extractive technologies in the 21st century has led to the creation of a new powerful global actor, the Multinational. These multinationals have no allegiance to a state, as earlier forms of capitalism did, rather they are ventures in the industries of agribusiness and mining that operate in countries throughout Latin America. These global actors are able to effectively dominate economies through the reprimarization of the countries that host them. Countries like Argentina have welcomed multinationals like Monsanto and Patagonia Gold into their territories, which has proven to be a detriment to the communities and environments in which they take place. These industries promise the creation of jobs, development of economies, and state revenue through taxes and royalties. Upon further inspection of these promises, it is revealed that these goals are misleading and these extractive operations are only able to succeed by preying on the preexisting social, political, and economic inequalities of communities in Argentina. I offer a vignette of socio-environmental conflicts that take place in rural, urban, and Indigenous communities. By analyzing these conflicts across space, identity reconfiguration and articulation such as that of the Mapuche in Río Negro is visibilized. As Mapuche and non-Mapuche community members come together to contest their positions within this extractive paradigm, the persisting logic and legacy of colonialism is revealed.</p>
2020-05-15T07:00:00Z
Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/18
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:anthrohp-1018
2021-05-14T20:20:11Z
publication:sip
publication:anthropology
publication:cisla
publication:anthrohp
The Peruvian Government’s Exacerbation of Food Insecurity among Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees during COVID-19
Schmitt, Abigail
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2021-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>As one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Peru is at the forefront of discussions and media attention regarding the effectiveness of their response and community aid. Unfortunately, the lack of health infrastructure and governmental issues have made Peru ill-equipped to manage the virus. More importantly, this crisis has aggravated the weaknesses in the national food system. Combined with previous food insecurity among all residents of the country, COVID-19 and the growing influx of Venezuelans constrained the capabilities of the Peruvian government. Ultimately, existing discrimination and xenophobia towards Venezuelans led to an ineffective response from the Peruvian government, bringing hunger and food insecurity to unprecedented levels. </p>
<p>This paper aims to show how even though the Peruvian government claims to fulfill the human right to food, there is a lack of government assistance at the local level, leading to high levels of food insecurity. Through the case of Venezuelan migrants and refugees, Peru’s disjointed response during the pandemic comes to light and illustrates a governmental absence which, in return, has caused NGOs and international organizations to step in to implement aid. This suggests a broader underlying issue of discrimination and xenophobia against non-nationals in Peru. Through a combination of ethnographic fieldwork, literature reviews and media publications, this paper examines Peru’s application of the human right to food and its exclusivity to Peruvian citizens at the expense of migrants and refugees. This work will shed light on the underlying dynamics between NGOs, the Peruvian government, and Venezuelan migrants and refugees that are at the heart of great hunger and human suffering, and point to future research in order to make Peru compliant with the human right to food and ensure proper support for Venezuelan migrants and refugees. </p>
2021-01-01T08:00:00Z
Anthropology
Latin American Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/anthrohp/19