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OverviewHow do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia's civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as ""secondary migrants"" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate coresidence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman's account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine BestemanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780822360445ISBN 10: 0822360446 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 05 February 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback 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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