Sudanese Women Refugees
Sudanese Women Refugees

Author: J. Edward

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-29

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0230608868

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This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that have occurred among southern Sudanese women refugees as they experience life in Cairo, Egypt. It intends to show how these women use their newly acquired skills and knowledge to challenge their past and to challenge the image of women refugees as victims and dependents. The author counters previous literature's tendency to categorize these women as victimized, dependent and backwards, rather than recognizing their strength and contributions to their new societies.

Gender, Home & Identity
Gender, Home & Identity

Author: Katarzyna Grabska

Publisher: Eastern Africa Series

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9781847010995

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Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.

What They Meant for Evil
What They Meant for Evil

Author: Rebecca Deng

Publisher: FaithWords

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1546013210

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Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys but now, for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story. One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked and she had to escape. What They Meant for Evil is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child, Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire, suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses, dodging life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles, and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps, and grappling with a war that stole her childhood. Her story is a lyrical, captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime, and how through divine intervention, she came to America and found a new life full of joy, hope, and redemption.

Wanderings
Wanderings

Author: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780801487798

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Introduction : departing -- Inaugural migration to North America. The first to arrive : Sati Majid. The Bahara : an immigrant community -- Post 1989 migration : four experiences. Southern Sudanese : a community in exile. Beyond the storm : Sudanese post-Gulf War migration. The Copts : a perpetual diaspora. Migration with a feminine face : breaking the cultural mold -- The Ghorb a: life in exile. Economic bearings. Finding refuge in the shrine of culture. Political life. Epilogue : Racialization and a nation in absentia.

Out of Exile
Out of Exile

Author: Craig Walzer

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1642595527

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Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan. Many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In their own words, the narrators of Out of Exile recount their lives before their displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their hopes to someday return home. Included are the stories of: ABUK: a native of South Sudan now living in Boston, who survived ten years as a slave after being captured by an Arab militia. MARCY and ROSE: best friends, who have spent the vast majority of their lives in a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. They remember almost nothing of their former homes in Sudan. MATHOK: who struggled to find opportunities as a refugee in Cairo, but eventually fell into a world of gangs and violence.

Alek
Alek

Author: Alek Wek

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0061857440

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Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model. Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few years of peace with her family before they were caught up in a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young model to supermodel was all the more notable because of Alek's non-European looks. A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that will inspire as well as inform.

'Brothers' Or Others?
'Brothers' Or Others?

Author: Anita H. Fábos

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781845450182

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Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community.

Gender, Violence, Refugees
Gender, Violence, Refugees

Author: Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1785336177

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Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return. The essays show how these factors lead to various forms of direct, indirect and structural violence. This ranges from discussions of norms reflected in policy documents and practise, the relationship between relief structures and living conditions in camps, to forced military recruitment and forced return, and covers countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

What Is the What
What Is the What

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 0307371379

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What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.

After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan

Author: Elke Grawert

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1847010229

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The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agreement on different Sudanese communities and neighbouring regions. After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initialhopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. This book compiles scholarly analyses of the implementation of the power sharing agreement of the CPA, of ongoing conflicts with particular respect to land issues, of the challenges of the reintegration of internally displaced people and refugees, and of the repercussions of the CPA in other regions of Sudan as well as in neighbouring countries. Elke Grawert is SeniorLecturer at the Institute for Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany.