Migration Anthropology Consultants (MAC), LLC

Human Migration & Refugee Studies
Cross-Cultural Training
Workplace Culture Analysis

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 MAC  OVERVIEW

Migration Anthropology Consultants (MAC), LLC provides expert international and domestic consultancy and training services to governmental and international agencies, non-governmental organizations and voluntary agencies, and corporations and businesses.

The multidisciplinary, holistic, participant observation methods of anthropology are applied to human migration, refugee populations, and business and organization workplace analysis.  Behavioral scientific rigor and humanism are essential to this approach.

Training programs are also provided on cross-cultural communication and other skills necessary for living and working in multi-cultural, international settings.

A detailed description of MAC's services, leadership and current projects can be found on the following pages:

PAGE 2 - MIGRATION & REFUGEES
Migration Studies
Refugee Resettlement Referral
Refugee Reception & Assimilation Studies

PAGE 3 - CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING
Cross-Cultural Communication for International Work

PAGE 4 - CORPORATE, BUSINESS & ORGANIZATION CULTURE
Corporate, Business & Organization Culture Analysis for Increased Production, Profit and Product/Service Quality

 PAGE 5 - MIGRATION, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES  IN THE NEWS
News Reports, Articles and Essays on Migration, Immigration and Refugees, Including MAC Commentary

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COMPANY LEADERSHIP

Jim Lassiter

Migration Anthropology Consultants (MAC), LLC is a private, limited liability company owned and directed by James E Lassiter, an independent practicing cultural anthropologist.

 James (Jim) has over thirty years of experience studying and living in African and other societies and cultures.  He has implemented, directed and managed international development, technical assistance and cultural exchange programs in numerous African countries.

 Jim also has in-depth experience developing and implementing US Government refugee resettlement policy throughout Africa, in the Commonwealth of Independent States and elsewhere. He has lived and worked for extended periods of time in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

 Jim was born on 12 October 1947 in Newport News, Virginia, USA.  He is married to the former Miss Immy Rose Namutosi of Mbale, Uganda.

 Jim's CV is available upon request.



 ~  Book Publication: Circumcision and Coffee in Uganda: Bamasaaba Responses to Incursion, Colonialism and Nationalism 1840-1962, published January 2017

~  Consultant on Human Migration: Investigate the Global Journey of Humankind by Judy Dodge Cummings, White River Junction: Nomad Press, 2016.

 ~  Provide expert information on the cultural practices and history of the Bamasaaba ethnic group of Uganda to the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services.  HIRC at GBLS represents indigent clients in a variety of immigration proceedings, including asylum applicants.

Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Harvard Law School
Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical Building
6 Everett St., Suite 3103
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/hirc/contact.html 

~  Consultant to Florida Institute of Technology, Institute for Cross Cultural Management http://research.fit.edu/iccm/.  Offer courses and seminars as follows:  1) Skills for Working and Living in Cross Cultural Settings; 2) African Cultures in Crisis

 ~  Consultant to RefugeePoint (formerly Mapendo International), a non-governmental organization supporting and referring African refugees, on refugee resettlement referral training and quality assurance

 ~  Part-time instruction at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Refugee Affairs Division teaching Cross-Cultural Communication to new Refugee Corps Officers enrolled in the Refugee Officer Training Course (ROTC)

 ~  Researching and writing a book on Ugandan family and migration matters:  "Kiondo:  A Family in Eastern Uganda and Beyond

 ~  Offering upper-division adjunct university quarter-length courses as follows:
  • "African Populations in Crisis:  Sudan and Somalia"
  • "African Populations in Crisis:  Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo"
  • "African Populations in Crisis:  Liberia and Sierra Leone" 
Each course presents an assessment of the social conditions and political actions that led to 20th century and current sociopolitical crises in the countries being considered.  Contact MAC for the course outline of the first of two semester-length offerings.

 The impact of crises on each nation's various populations, cultures and the individual in society is studied and compared.  Particular attention is given to the impact of crises on internally displaced and refugee populations.

CONTRACT TERMS

Available upon request.

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 Migration Anthropology Consultants (MAC), LLC

Migration & Refugee Studies, Cross-Cultural Training, Workplace Culture Analysis


Shelter, Sustenance, Survival

Migration Policy Institute
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MY SOURCES FOR NEWS AND INFORMATION
                
 I am sometimes asked what sources I use for news and information. In addition to electronic and paper books and a free local weekly newspaper tossed in my driveway every Wednesday (awful opinion page, great crossword puzzle), I read mostly online sources. Some of them I subscribe to at reasonable rates. The following are my main sources for news, articles, commentary, essays, and other information. Very often in reading something I'll explore an embedded link to an additional source. But these are my day-to-day places. If you know and use others you think I might be interested in, please put them and their links in a comment. Thanks!


NEWS
New York Times
Washington Post
PBS News Hour
The Guardian
BBC
CNN
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Al Jazeera
Sky News
Deutsche Welle
AllAfrica.com

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, COMMENTARY
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Academia
ACLU
Aeon
Arts & Letters Daily
Atlantic, The
Alternet
Brain Pickings
Cato Institute
Center for Individualism
Chronicle of Higher Education
Conversation, The
Cook Political Report
Dark Mountain Project
Delanceyplace
Economist, The
Footnotes to Plato, Massimo Pigliuuci
Free Africa Forum
Globalist, The
Harper’s
Hedgehog Review
Hoover Institution
Huffington Post
Institute of Arts and Ideas, The
JSTOR
Los Angeles Review of Books
Literary Review, The
Longreads
Medium
Microphilosophy
Migration Policy Institute
Nautilus
New Oxonian
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Review of Books
New Yorker, The
Objective Standard, The
Oxford University Press Blog
Patheos
Philosopher’s Magazine, The
Philosophy Now
Quartz
ResearchGate
RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
Salon
Science Daily
Science
Skeptic
Slate
Spectator
Spiked
Spiritual Naturalist
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Times Literary Supplement
United Nations
Uplift
Vox
Walrus, The
Wikipedia

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 JIM'S BLOGS
If you like what you’ve found here at the MAC, you might also like my other blogs and website. If you do, kindly visit them, follow or subscribe to them via email, and leave your comments, if any, on my posts.

Being Human – Our Past, Present and Future in Nature
www.jameselassiter.blogspot.com
On Anthropology and Biology

Owl & Ibis – A Confluence of Minds
www.owl-ibis.blogspot.com
On the Natural & Social Sciences, History, Philosophy, Modern Stoicism, and Aspects of Cultural Studies, Including the Sacred

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