Making Refuge : Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine / Catherine Besteman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Besteman, Catherine Lowe, author.

Series:

Global Insecurities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 co-residence 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.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

PART I Refugees

Chapter 1 Becoming Refugees

Chapter 2 The Humanitarian Condition

Chapter 3 Becoming Somali Bantus

PART II Lewiston

Chapter 4 We Have Responded Valiantly

Chapter 5 Strangers in Our Midst

Chapter 6 Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands

PART III Refuge

Chapter 7 Making Refuge

Chapter 8 These Are Our Kids

Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091240

147809124X

OCLC:

931934746

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1353/book.64128