Wanderings Contributor(s): Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801440181 ISBN-13: 9780801440182 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 305.892 |
LCCN: 2002002915 |
Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - East Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa: - 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. |