Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration

This is the title of an international conference organized jointly by the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology and the Institute of Ethnology of the ASCR at Villa Lanna in Prague 25–26 May, 2012. This event focused on a series of meetings held in different places under the auspices of IUAES and within events organized by UNESCO-MOST in which the Institute of Ethnology regularly participates. The meeting discussed topics such as, how a city’s image is influenced by specific broad contexts; how cities exceed their own borders and how the city borders are affected by outside influences; and how foreign migration influences the image of a city and changes its borders.