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Catherine Besteman - Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine - 9780822360278 - V9780822360278
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Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

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Description for Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Global Insecurities
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360278
SKU
V9780822360278
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Catherine Besteman
Catherine Besteman is Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Cape Town and Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery. 

Reviews for Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
"Besteman eschews social science jargon to tell her story with great insight and empathy. Her book should be required reading for policymakers currently debating what to do with refugees from Syria."
Nichola van de Walle
Foreign Affairs
"Given Besteman’s unique perspective on the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston and her impressive scholarship on refugees, Africa and racism, ... Read more

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