Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced -- Dissent historicized -- Becoming displaced -- Gendered rituals -- Negotiating peace -- Epilogue: "this is my country" -- Appendix A: primary informants -- Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan -- Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba
Summary
Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and
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