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Resilience in South Sudanese women : hope for daughters of the Nile / Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wanga-Odhiambo, Godriver, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and war--South Sudan.
- Women and war.
- Women--South Sudan--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women refugees--South Sudan.
- Women refugees.
- South Sudanese--United States.
- South Sudanese.
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005.
- Sudan.
- South Sudan--Politics and government--2005-2011.
- South Sudan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book traces the origin and developments of civil wars in Southern Sudan and how they impacted the female population. It shows how these refugee South Sudanese women dealt with homelessness in host countries through various coping strategies, and their eventual resettlement in USA where again they experienced cultural collisions. Finally, Resilience in South Sudanese Women traces their settlement in America, the challenges they experienced, and how they overcame them through determination and resilience.
- Contents:
- Historical background to Sudan's civil war
- Movement beyond the borders
- Settling in: self settlement in Nairobi
- Providing for refugees
- Coping strategy: establishment of social network
- Coping strategy two: small scale economic ventures
- Behold the promised land: America
- Sudanese women: the real heroines.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7867-9
- OCLC:
- 872701276
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