ABSTRACT
At the junction between two millennia, many anthropologists feel deeply uneasy about the object and method of their discipline. Although there are scarcely any more grand systems of explanation, the theoretical debate remains intense and many authors are hoping that a new paradigm will take shape. In this rich if disorganized intellectual climate, there have been important advances in the study of migration and refugee flows, in connection with the theme of transnationalism and globalization, and this has had a wider impact on anthropology and the human and social sciences in general.
