Mette Berg
Departmental Lecturer, Anthropology of Migration and Mphil Course Convenor
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Mette Berg is a Departmental Lecturer in the Anthropology of Migration and Mphil in Migration Studies Course Convenor
Mette has a DPhil in social anthropology from the University of Oxford (2004). She has previously taught at the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral research based on fieldwork in Spain, Cuba and the US was on social memory and politics among the Cuban diaspora in Spain.
Her research interests are: diasporas, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, the politics of memory, generational dynamics, gender. In addition to her research on the Cuban diaspora, she has conducted pilot research on a new project on the Iranian diaspora in the UK supported by the Carnegie Trust.
Selected Publications
Berg, Mette Louise (forthcoming) ‘Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain’, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
Berg, Mette Louise (2009) Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba’s Diasporic Children of the Revolution. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol 16(2): 129-156. Link to article
‘Memory, Politics and Diaspora: Cubans in Spain’, in Andrea O’Reilly Herrera and Lourdes Gil (eds.) Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced, pp. 15-34. Albany: SUNY Press (2007).
‘Cosmopolitisme et construction identitaire chez les “enfants de la revolution” cubaine’ (translated from English by Hélène Arnaud), in Fariba Adelkhah and Jean-François Bayart (eds.) Voyages du développement: Èmigration, commerce, exil, pp. 337-366. Paris: Karthala (2007).