| Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine Contributor(s): Besteman, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822360446 ISBN-13: 9780822360445 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.893 |
| LCCN: 2015026280 |
| Series: Global Insecurities |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - East Africa - Geographic Orientation - Maine - Ethnic Orientation - African - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate coresidence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman's account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes. |
