The subject of this paper is the anthropological analysis of narratives of female migrants from the EU who are living in Belgrade. The analysis uses the approaches of “transnationalism from below” ...and home studies. The paper addresses the question of what is home for EU citizens living outside the EU. The aim is to cast increased light on middle-class migrations from more developed countries to a less developed country. The main results show that the notion of home is intricately linked with the interviewees’ understanding of their transmigrant position and their “bifocal lives”. The study draws attention to educated and skilled EU migrants as a compelling research topic.
Rad predstavlja pregled najvažnijih antropologa, pre svega u anglo-američkoj i francuskoj tradiciji, koji su uticali na stvaranje antropologije fotografije i dalje utrli njen put, poput Boasa, ...Malinovskog, Evansa-Pričarda, Mid i Bejtson, Levi-Strosa i Džona Kolijera. Zatim, u radu se izlažu savremena promišljanja na temu fotografije u istraživanjima (Pink, Edvards, Rubi i Pini) i predstavlja nekoliko primera novijih inovativnih istraživačkih projekata kao što su: analize arhivske muzejske i istorijske fotografije, elektronski hipermediji, kolaborativni projekti s ispitanicima i fotografima, foto-esej i „fotografsko izmamljivanje“. Cilj rada je da prikaže da fotografija ne treba da bude samo tehničko pomagalo pri terenskom radu, već da nudi naučni i kreativni potencijal za savremenu antropologiju.
It is usually emphasized that the relationship between migrants and the domestic objects from their home countries is essential for migrants' maintenance of their various identities. It is presumed ...that migrants need familiar objects to feel at home in new surroundings. This study focuses on the domestic material culture of transnational well-educated middle-class European women living in Belgrade. The aim of the paper is to discover what role domestic objects from their home countries play in their homemaking practices and everyday lives in Serbia. Ethnographic research was conducted for the most part in 2018. Levitt and Glick Schiller's theoretical framework on transnational 'ways of belonging' and 'ways of being' and Anthias' concept of 'translocational positionality' were applied. Furthermore, Pérez Murcia and Boccagni's framework on homemaking practices among migrants was discussed. Contrary to some similar studies of affluent migrants, the findings show that domestic objects from native countries evoke neither ethnic nor national sentiments. In some cases, they do not need them to feel 'at home' in new surroundings.
In developed European Union (EU) countries, migrants are thought to be less likely to have their children fully vaccinated. To investigate this idea, this study examines parental perceptions of child ...vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 42 Serbian migrants in the Netherlands, conducted in the summer of 2020. The aim was to determine if the pandemic changed these parents’ attitudes towards the Dutch healthcare system and vaccination in general. The paper’s theoretical framework juxtaposes a “risk society” approach with a governmentality approach. The majority of the parents surveyed had had their children vaccinated according to the Dutch national vaccination programme. However, the study shows that many Serbian migrants had negative attitudes towards the then forthcoming SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. I therefore conclude that new vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccine, act as risk technologies which create a new “risk environment” rather than being perceived as preventive health measures.
The vaccine is considered in academic, foremost medical, but also in political and public discourse as one of the greatest human achievements. Immunization has saved and is saving millions of lives ...around the world. However, from a historical perspective, immunization was always followed by more or less public resistance due to its alleged negative side-effects, such as outbursts of severe illnesses. A mandatory childhood vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is part of the current controversy over the harmfulness of vaccines in Serbia. In view of the fact that the media is an important source for transmitting health messages and understanding health issues, the subject of this paper is the media presentation of MMR immunization in Serbia. How was the state health care narrative on MMR immunization presented in the Serbian daily press during the last two measles outbreaks in 2014-2015 and 2017-2018? By using the theoretical “text-context-hypertext” approcah to media content by Ljiljana Gavrilović, Serbian broadsheets and daily papers, such as Blic, Kurir, Politika, Večernje Novosti, from the period 2014-2020, are analyzed. The preliminary results show that the news that concurs with the 2014-15 measles epidemic differs greatly from the news during the 2017-18 epidemic. During the first period, the papers carried medical experts’ advice on the benefits and importance of the MMR vaccine, criticizing (irrational and emotional) parents (mostly mothers) who do not vaccinate their children, in parallel with parental lay evidence on its harmfulness. From approximately 2017 anti-vaccination attitudes disappeared from the newspapers, even from the yellow press. This is concomitant with the new Law on the Protection of the Population against Communicable Diseases (2016), which penalizes anti-vaccination lobbying. In other words, instead of gaining public trust in the health sector and the state by presenting facts, offering dialogue with opponents and systematic education, the state leaders discredited and excluded opposing opinions as “uncivilized”, “irrational” and part of “anti-vaccination lobbying”. Studies explained that citizens of post-socialist countries trust more individuals (friends and family) and distrust the state authorities (as enemies). By introducing compulsory penalties for non-vaccination, the state only deepened this historical and cultural distrust between the state and its citizen. To conclude, insults to parents of non-immunized children, threats of penalties and actual penalties, and the exaggeration of the outcomes of the 2014-15 measles epidemic did not lead to mass immunization. On the contrary, all this acted only counterproductively, as the latest epidemic broke out precisely among non-vaccinated and semi-vaccinated populations. Therefore, it is suggested in the paper that this vaccine should be optional, parallel with the introduction of organized promotion of MMR vaccination, its benefits and side-effects, detailed information on vaccine content, greater freedom of media content on the MMR vaccine, and open public dialogue of parents with medical experts.
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