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11%OFFCatherine Besteman - Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine - 9780822360445 - V9780822360445
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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 Paperback. 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: 155 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
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

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Global Insecurities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360445
SKU
V9780822360445
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
Powerful, persuasive, and illuminating, at once deeply intimate and broadly relevant. Making Refuge will interest students of all levels, professional anthropologists, members of the media, and an educated non-academic readership.
Daniel M. Goldstein
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Besteman's book is the fruit of years of engagement with the people about whom she is writing, ... Read more

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