Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Published by Cornell University Press 2002

Wanderings

Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

In the series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720406

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

Sondra Hale, University of California Los Angeles:

Wanderings is highly readable and an appropriate mix of theory and personal narratives. Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf makes good use of the data, and employs a methodology that reveals and clarifies rather than mystifies.

Soheir A. Morsy, Independent Scholar and International Consultant:

This rare anthropological investigation of Sudanese migration to the New World is a valuable contribution to the study of transnational migration. Informed by global political economic developments, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf's analysis of the complexities of social identity provides a challenging alternative to the classic conception of community as a territorially based entity. This meticulously researched and well-written book holds promise of broad appeal among both specialists and non-specialists concerned with contemporary developments in African/Arab societies, as well as issues of race and ethnicity in the U.S.

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.

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.

Heather J. Sharkey:

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Author’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
An Airport Scene Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Departing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. INAUGURAL MIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
PART II. POST-1989 MIGRATION: FOUR EXPERIENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
PART III. THE GHORBA: LIFE IN EXILE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Epilogue. Racialization and a Nation in Absentia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Other: 1 map, 20 halftones
Keywords: History; Anthropology

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501720406