Sudanese Women Refugees

Author : J. Edward
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608868
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sudanese Women Refugees written by J. Edward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that have occurred among southern Sudanese women refugees as they experience life in Cairo, Egypt. It intends to show how these women use their newly acquired skills and knowledge to challenge their past and to challenge the image of women refugees as victims and dependents. The author counters previous literature's tendency to categorize these women as victimized, dependent and backwards, rather than recognizing their strength and contributions to their new societies.

Author : J. Edward
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403980779
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sudanese Women Refugees written by J. Edward and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that have occurred among southern Sudanese women refugees as they experience life in Cairo, Egypt. It intends to show how these women use their newly acquired skills and knowledge to challenge their past and to challenge the image of women refugees as victims and dependents. The author counters previous literature's tendency to categorize these women as victimized, dependent and backwards, rather than recognizing their strength and contributions to their new societies.

Author : Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739178679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilience in South Sudanese Women written by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilience in South Sudanese Women describes the historical injustices in Southern Sudan that led to the outbreak of civil wars. These injustices included socio-economic and political marginalization that denied the women basic needs. It gives firsthand life experiences of the Sudanese women during the protracted civil wars in their country. It narrates the horrors of the gruesome journeys that they took as they fled war zone, burying their kids on unmarked graves and moving on. It shows how they dealt with homelessness in host countries through various coping strategies, and their eventual resettlement in USA where again they experienced cultural collisions. However, their determination, innovation, and resilience always helped them to overcome the struggles.

Author : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720406
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wanderings written by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf places her community into context, showing its increasing historical and political significance. Abusharaf herself participates in many aspects of life in the migrant community and in the Sudan in ways that a non-Sudanese could not. Attending religious events, social gatherings, and meetings, Abusharaf discovers that a national sense of common Sudanese identity emerges more strongly among immigrants in North America than it does at home. Sudanese immigrants use informal transatlantic networks to ease the immigration process, and act on the local level to help others find housing and employment. They gather for political activism, to share feasts, and to celebrate marriages, always negotiating between tradition and the challenges of their new surroundings.Abusharaf uses a combination of conversations with Sudanese friends, interviews, and life histories to portray several groups among the Sudanese immigrant population: Southern war refugees, including the "Lost Boys of Sudan," spent years in camps in Kenya or Uganda; professionals were expelled from the Gulf because their country's rulers backed Iraq in the Gulf War; Christian Copts suffered from religious persecution in Sudan; and women migrated alone.

Author : Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only Through Peace written by Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Kani Edward
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612945142
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Socio-cultural Change [microform] : Transformations and Future Imagining Among Southern Sudanese Women Refugees written by Jane Kani Edward and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My thesis examines how southern Sudanese women refugees understand the social, cultural, economic and political transformations that have affected their lives in exile. It intends to show how these women use their experiences to re-evaluate their past and to challenge the image of women refugees as victims and dependents in refugee literature. The assumption I make hear is that, the situation of African women refugees has been analyzed from the varied perspectives that tend to universalize and victimize the refugees. This thesis argues against the universalized, victimized and dependent image of African women refugees by invoking African women's power, agency and their differences. My findings suggest that life in exile has both negative and positive consequences on refugee lives. Due to war and displacement, the social and cultural traditions of those affected are disrupted, leading to changes in behavior, perceptions and lifestyles. Economic difficulties and resettlement program to a third country have led to increase in cases of separation and divorce and have further forced many refugees to alcoholism and prostitution. Although displacement and life in exile disrupt the normal life of those affected, life in exile can be of benefit to refugees. My interviews indicate that life in Cairo allowed women to re-evaluate their perceptions, which in turn necessitated a shift in gender roles, whereby women adopted new social and economic roles contrary to those, which existed in Sudan. Their status of being bread winners, challenge, both the dependent image of a woman refugee and the long-held belief among southern Sudanese that women are always dependent on men economically. Women's new roles also challenge the public-private distinction, rendering it insignificant. It further rendered their representation as victims and dependents in the refugee literature unacceptable. A discursive framework of the interlocking and the intersecting systems of oppression and the idea of the 'simultaneity' of oppression is used in order to capture the complexities of the everyday experiences of the refugees. The underlying assumption in this framework is, the refusal to either address one form of oppression while leaving the others intact or to hierarchize oppressions.

Author : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226002012
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan written by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and livelihoods. Her findings debunk the myth that these settlements are utterly abject, and instead she discovers a dynamic culture where many women play an active role in fighting for peace and social change. Abusharaf also examines the way women’s bodies are politicized by their displacement, analyzing issues such as religious conversion, marriage, and female circumcision. An urgent dispatch from the ongoing humanitarian crisis in northeastern Africa, Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan will be essential for anyone concerned with the interrelated consequences of war, forced migration, and gender inequality.

Author : Deborah Mulumba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789085043041
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Relations, Livelihood Security and Reproductive Health Among Women Refugees in Uganda written by Deborah Mulumba and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistical tables.

Author : Jon D. Holtzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317346041
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives written by Jon D. Holtzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner. In understanding the experiences of the Nuer, students will not only gain insights into the world refugee problem and the role of immigration in the United States, they will also learn about the features of Nuer life which are considered a standard part of the anthropology curriculum. The book juxtaposes elements of Nuer culture which are well-known within anthropology — and featured in most anthropology textbooks — with new developments arising from the immigration of many other Nuer to the U.S. in the 1990s as refugees from civil war in southern Sudan. Consequently, this book will fit well within existing anthropology curricula, while providing an important update on descriptions of traditional life.

Author : Suzanne Samson Jambo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Gender Conflict and Bias written by Suzanne Samson Jambo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: