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Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf - Wanderings, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Wanderings

Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America

Av Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

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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.
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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.

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Wanderings is a sensitive portrayal of the diverse Sudanese community in North America. It is also highly readable, partly because the author allows immigrants to speak for themselves by frequently including excerpts from conversations and interviews. The details of this book are Sudanese, but the core immigrant experience it examines—of struggling to make a new home while trying to preserve links to an old one—has universal resonance and appeal.- Heather J. Sharkey (International Journal of African Historical Studies 36:1) Abusharaf discusses the variety of Sudanese migrants who came to North America in the 20th century.... Wanderings is valuable in demonstrating recent immigrant attitudes toward a new environment.(Choice) This interesting study presents a nicely textured picture of the Sudanese diaspora in the United States and Canada, surveying the reasons people left home, their economic and social coping strategies, their reluctance to assimilate non-Sudanese lifestyles, and their attitudes regarding religion, traditional customs, women's status, and politics at home.(Foreign Affairs)

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