Grabska, Katarzyna, 1973-
Gender, home & identity : Nuer repatriation to southern Sudan / Gender, home and identity Nuer repatriation to southern Sudan Katarzyna Grabska, research fellow, dept of anthropology & sociology of development, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva. - : james currey, c2014 - xv, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Eastern Africa series . - Eastern African studies (London, England) .
Returnee dilemmas: dangerous trousers and threatening mini-skirts -- Jiom-season of fighting and running: conflict, mobility, gender -- Mai-season of displacement: becoming 'modern' in Kakuma -- Rwil-season of 'returns' -- Season of settling-in: land and livelihoods -- Tot-gendered emplacement identities, ideologies and marriage -- Returnees as visitors and the Nuer community: where do we go from here?
"This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change and show how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan, and, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations."--Back cover.
9781847010995 (hardback: acidfree paper)
2014497124
Nuer (African people)--South Sudan.
Refugees--Attitudes.--South Sudan
Women refugees--Attitudes.--South Sudan
Group identity--South Sudan.
Sex role--South Sudan.
Repatriation--Social aspects--South Sudan.
Return migration--South Sudan.
South Sudan--Social conditions.
DT159.927.N84 / G73 2014
325.2109629
Gender, home & identity : Nuer repatriation to southern Sudan / Gender, home and identity Nuer repatriation to southern Sudan Katarzyna Grabska, research fellow, dept of anthropology & sociology of development, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva. - : james currey, c2014 - xv, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Eastern Africa series . - Eastern African studies (London, England) .
Returnee dilemmas: dangerous trousers and threatening mini-skirts -- Jiom-season of fighting and running: conflict, mobility, gender -- Mai-season of displacement: becoming 'modern' in Kakuma -- Rwil-season of 'returns' -- Season of settling-in: land and livelihoods -- Tot-gendered emplacement identities, ideologies and marriage -- Returnees as visitors and the Nuer community: where do we go from here?
"This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change and show how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan, and, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations."--Back cover.
9781847010995 (hardback: acidfree paper)
2014497124
Nuer (African people)--South Sudan.
Refugees--Attitudes.--South Sudan
Women refugees--Attitudes.--South Sudan
Group identity--South Sudan.
Sex role--South Sudan.
Repatriation--Social aspects--South Sudan.
Return migration--South Sudan.
South Sudan--Social conditions.
DT159.927.N84 / G73 2014
325.2109629