La metodología utilizada en un trabajo etnográfico en la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla

El objetivo de este artículo es describir la metodología utilizada en el trabajo de campo llevado a cabo en la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla (España). En la investigación, que es parte de la tesis doctoral que estoy realizando en el Departamento de Antropología Social de la Universidad de Granada, se indaga en la cotidianidad de los migrantes que viven en el Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes (CETI) de la ciudad; realizo un trabajo etnográfico cualitativo que se basa en entrevistas en profundidad y en la observación participante, que utiliza además, herramientas audiovisuales, artísticas, y que pone el acento en la participación activa de los migrantes en la investigación, para estudiar a fondo la construcción identitaria en esta fase de tránsito en su trayecto migratorio.The aim of this article is to describe the methodology used along the fieldwork done in the Autonomous City of Melilla (Spain). The research is part of the PhD thesis I am doing within the Social Anthropology Department of the University of Granada (Spain). I study the everyday lives of the migrants living in the CETI (Temporary Permanence Camp, as per its Spanish acronym) of the city; I conduct an ethnographic-qualitative work based on participant observation and interviews; I also use audiovisuals and art and I specially focus on the participation of the migrant in the research, to delve into the identity formation in migration's transit phase

Migración de tránsito: Entre temporalidad y largas esperas. El caso del CETI de Melilla

The article presents the issue of international migration emphasizing in a peculiar space in the European context: the Temporary Centre for Immigrants (CETI) Melilla. The city is a gateway between the south and north, two divided spaces linked by economic agreements and by the movements of people. The objective of this article is to study in depth the daily life of migrants living, in most of the studied cases during years, in the CETI of Melilla. The article is based on the informations recollected during my fieldwork in Melilla in the period 2010-2012.El artículo aborda el tema de las migraciones internacionales haciendo hincapié en un espacio peculiar dentro del contexto europeo, es decir, el Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes (CETI) de Melilla. La ciudad es una puerta entre el sur y el norte, entonces entre espacios ligados por los movimientos económicos y de personas. El objetivo del artículo es profundizar en la estancia de los migrantes residentes en el CETI de la ciudad que, en la mayoría de los casos estudiados se prolonga durante años. El artículo se basa en el material recopilado a lo largo del trabajo de campo realizado en la ciudad autónoma de Melilla entre los años 2010-2012

Gender, age and diagnosis effect on self-perceived pain in hematological patients: retrospective analysis of two case series.

We have read with great interest the paper by Ahmed and colleagues (1), entitled " Does gender affect self-perceived pain in cancer patients? -A meta-analysis "

Racial differences in systemic sclerosis disease presentation: a European Scleroderma Trials and Research group study

Objectives. Racial factors play a significant role in SSc. We evaluated differences in SSc presentations between white patients (WP), Asian patients (AP) and black patients (BP) and analysed the effects of geographical locations.Methods. SSc characteristics of patients from the EUSTAR cohort were cross-sectionally compared across racial groups using survival and multiple logistic regression analyses.Results. The study included 9162 WP, 341 AP and 181 BP. AP developed the first non-RP feature faster than WP but slower than BP. AP were less frequently anti-centromere (ACA; odds ratio (OR) = 0.4, P < 0.001) and more frequently anti-topoisomerase-I autoantibodies (ATA) positive (OR = 1.2, P = 0.068), while BP were less likely to be ACA and ATA positive than were WP [OR(ACA) = 0.3, P < 0.001; OR(ATA) = 0.5, P = 0.020]. AP had less often (OR = 0.7, P = 0.06) and BP more often (OR = 2.7, P < 0.001) diffuse skin involvement than had WP.AP and BP were more likely to have pulmonary hypertension [OR(AP) = 2.6, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.7, P = 0.03 vs WP] and a reduced forced vital capacity [OR(AP) = 2.5, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.4, P < 0.004] than were WP. AP more often had an impaired diffusing capacity of the lung than had BP and WP [OR(AP vs BP) = 1.9, P = 0.038; OR(AP vs WP) = 2.4, P < 0.001]. After RP onset, AP and BP had a higher hazard to die than had WP [hazard ratio (HR) (AP) = 1.6, P = 0.011; HR(BP) = 2.1, P < 0.001].Conclusion. Compared with WP, and mostly independent of geographical location, AP have a faster and earlier disease onset with high prevalences of ATA, pulmonary hypertension and forced vital capacity impairment and higher mortality. BP had the fastest disease onset, a high prevalence of diffuse skin involvement and nominally the highest mortality

Construcción identitaria de los migrantes en las fronteras de Europa: el caso del Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes de Melilla

Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Antropología Socia