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Author Dudley, Sandra H

Title Materialising exile : Material Culture and Embodied Experience among the Karenni Refugees in Thailand
Published New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Series Forced Migration, 27
Contents Materialising Exile; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees; Chapter 2: In-Between; Chapter 3: Inside/Outside; Chapter 4: Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-Exile Past; Chapter 5: Coping and (Re)constructing 'Home' in Displacement; Chapter 6: Materialising Home and Exile; Bibliography; Index
Summary Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile. The combined emphasis on both displacement a
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Subject Refugees -- Burma -- Kayah State -- Social conditions
Refugees -- Thailand -- Social conditions
Refugees -- Social conditions.
Burma -- Kayah State.
Thailand.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781845458096
1845458095