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International Migrant Stock 2019

The Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has released the International Migrant Stock 2019. The report provides estimates of the number of international migrants by age, sex and origin for all countries and areas of the world. The report is based on the estimates on official national statistics on the ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Aftermath of war • Anthropology • Demography • Diaspora • European migrant crisis • Forced migration • Human migration • Population • Refugee • Right of asylum

India leading country of origin of international migrants in 2019

A dataset titled ‘International Migrant Stock 2019’ has recently released by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The data provides the latest estimates of the number of international migrants by age, sex and origin for all countries and areas of the world.  As per UN report, India is the ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Anthropology • Demography • Diaspora • Environmental social science • European migrant crisis • Genetic genealogy • Human migration • Migrant labourers in Kerala

Mumbai to host India’s first-ever nationwide food archaeology conference “ArchaeoBroma”

India’s first-ever nationwide conference on the archaeology, anthropology and sociology of food will be held in Mumbai, Maharashtra from on May 5 and 6, 2018. The conference titled “ArchaeoBroma” is being touted as India’s first-ever national meet on “food as culture”. It will be organised by the India Study Centre Trust (INSTUCEN Trust) and the ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2018

Topics: Anthropology • Cities in Asia • Food science • Food studies • Geography of India • Mumbai • Sociology

India, Denmark MoU on Labour Mobility

India and Denmark have signed a MoU on Labour Mobility Partnership to promote orderly migration of Indian workers to meet the growing demand of workforce in Denmark. Who signed ?Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, who is currently on a tour to Denmark and Danish Minister of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs Birther Ronn Hornbech. ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2009

Topics: Academic disciplines • Anthropology • Countries • Current Affairs 2009 • Demography • Denmark • Genetic genealogy • Human migration • Law by country

Suggested Books : Anthropology

Paper I(Part I)1. Beattie : Other Cultures2. Beals & Hoijer/ : An Introduction to Anthropology3. Haviland : An Introduction to Anthropology4. Vaid : Economy and Social Relations5. U.S. Mishra : An Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology (in Hindi)6. Mishra & Hasnain : Unifying Anthropology7. Honigman : he World of Man8. Herskovits : Cultural Anthropology9. Majumdar & ..

Topics: Anthropology • Guggenheim Fellows • Hasnain • Melville J. Herskovits • Vaid