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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine BestemanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780822360278ISBN 10: 0822360276 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 05 February 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Terms and Abbreviations ix Timeline of Events xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees 35 2. The Humanitarian Condition 57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus 77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction 103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly 115 5. Strangers in Our Midst 139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands 169 Part III. Refuge Introduction 205 7. Making Refuge 215 8. These Are Our Kids 243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be 277 Notes 291 References 313 Index 327ReviewsThe timeliest of books in these most troubling of times. The out-of-nowhere arrival of refugees and migrants at the doorstep of Europe and the United States their sheer mass, the horrors of the journey, their inhospitable reception, the centrality of this to all that is political today is the issue of our time. Catherine Besteman follows the journey of Somali refugees who resettled in the United States with brilliant insight and eloquence, and with the intimacy and soulful empathy that comes from years of acquaintance, both in Somalia and the United States. --Charles Piot, author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War Author InformationCatherine Besteman is Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Cape Town and Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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