Wanderings : Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa, author.

Series:

The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Series

The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sudanese--Canada.

Sudanese.

Sudanese--United States.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Case studies.

Canada.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Case studies.

United States.

Sudan--Emigration and immigration--Case studies.

Sudan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 193 p. :) ill., map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

An Airport Scene

Introduction. Departing

PART I. INAUGURAL MIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA

PART II. POST-1989 MIGRATION: FOUR EXPERIENCES

PART III. THE GHORBA: LIFE IN EXILE

Epilogue. Racialization and a Nation in Absentia

Glossary

References

Index

The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues / Sanjek, Roger

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501720406

1501720406

OCLC:

1041051960