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South Sudanese Displacement and State-Making

“The previous war was better than this one”

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book examines the experiences of the South Sudanese displaced during the latest civil war, which caused a quarter of South Sudan’s population to flee their homes. It considers how these experiences relate to the ways in which the identities, rights and sense of belonging of displaced citizens are scrutinised by local authorities and contested by the individuals and communities inhabiting the South Sudanese-Ugandan borderland.Drawing on extensive original research documenting the personal accounts of people displaced to Uganda’s settlements and urban centres, this book pushes the conceptual boundaries of what being ‘displaced’ or a ‘refugee’ entails in a borderland region. The book introduces the concept of ‘multi-site living’ to explore public and private efforts to coordinate settlement life and mobility across borders. The book goes on to consider what the disruptive nature of violence and insecurity in South Sudan means for modern politics and State-making processes in the world’s youngest country.Engaging with important questions across both the social and political sciences, this book will appeal to university students, scholars and researchers working on displacement, mobility, borders, and identity politics, both within South Sudan and beyond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-11-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
Antal sidor214
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041135425

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Part 1: War and Peace in the Making of South Sudan 1.1. South Sudan’s 2013-2030 Civil War and Displacement: And Introduction 1.2. The ‘Trouble’ of Boundaries, Border/lands and People’s Fate 1.3. Getting In: Research Sites Part 2: The Idea of South Sudan in the Minds of Displaced Citizens 2.1. The Militarised and Politicised Context of Settlements 2.2. “We Were Not Prepared”: Fighting for VS. Governing the State 2.3. “The Previous War was Better Than This One”: Violence, Modernity and Change 2.4. Life in the Ugandan Settlements Part 3: Living Between Two Worlds: Push and Pull Factors 3.1. The View from the Border 3.2. Rethinking Labels and Their Consequences 3.3. Who Moves: Hidden Determinations of Mobility and Immobility 3.4. Following the Story in an Unpredictable Environment 3.5. Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Exile 4.0. Interlude Part 4: Displacement, Cross-Border Mobility and State-Making 4.1. The Economy of Movement 4.2. Shifting Physical and Imaginary Borders 4.3. Negotiating Access Between Legality and Illegality, Formality and Informality 4.4. Interlude: Between Borders 4.5. Displacement Re-Shaping the Political Economy of the Central State Part 5: Conclusion: Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making 5.1. Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making 5.2. A Cross-Border Framework: Multi-Site Living as a Response to Displacement 5.3. Arua as a City of Refuge 5.4. Bidibidi Settlement into a City-Like Structure 5.5. In What Ways Displacement Helps Us Understand Modern State-Making Processes?