A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667

Christopher S. Beekman , Andrew W. Kandel , Joan Anton Barceló , Rachael Kiddey , Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré , Corey S. Ragsdale , Kouakou Sylvain Koffi , Gninin Aïcha Touré , Laura Mameli , Jeffrey H. Altschul , Christine Lee , Ibrahima Thiaw , CfAS Human Migration Group

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This article presents the latest results of a collaborative project that seeks to develop recommendations for policymakers on migration by drawing upon the incomparable dataset accessible to archaeologists. While prior archaeological research on migration has provided important theoretical insights, our policy-oriented goals required us to adopt different terminology and analytical frameworks. How did migration affect migrants and local populations? What were the primary challenges to a successful migration? Can modern migrations be more than sources of analogy for prehistoric cases? We present detailed case studies from very different cultural contexts prioritized by what we call modalities – the different challenges to migrants and the types of capital used to overcome them. We observe that these challenges are often cumulative, placing more burdens upon migrants that ultimately undermine a successful outcome.

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Multiple-

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期刊介绍： An innovative, international publication, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is devoted to the development of theory and, in a broad sense, methodology for the systematic and rigorous understanding of the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies. The discipline served by the journal is characterized by its goals and approach, not by geographical or temporal bounds. The data utilized or treated range from the earliest archaeological evidence for the emergence of human culture to historically documented societies and the contemporary observations of the ethnographer, ethnoarchaeologist, sociologist, or geographer. These subjects appear in the journal as examples of cultural organization, operation, and evolution, not as specific historical phenomena.