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Iain Walker
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
African Studies
Arab Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Arabian Peninsula
Indian Ocean Region
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Specialties
Hadramis Diaspora Identity Migration
Languages
English (native)
French (fluent)
Swahili (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2003 | Anthropology | University of Sydney
MA | 1986 | Social Anthropology | University of Edinburgh
Abstracts
Nostalgia for a lost homeland: the Hadramawt independence movement in Saudi Arabia