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11%OFFRoger Hargreaves - Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - 9780801487798 - V9780801487798
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Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

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Description for Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S.
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487798
SKU
V9780801487798
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About Roger Hargreaves
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and the author of Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement.

Reviews for Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Wanderings is a sensitive portrayal of the diverse Sudanese community in North America. It is also highly readable, partly because the author allows immigrants to speak for themselves by frequently including excerpts from conversations and interviews. The details of this book are Sudanese, but the core immigrant experience it examines—of struggling to make a new home while trying to preserve ... Read more

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