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This is an interpretive, ethnographic account of how gender relations between Nuer refugee men and women in San Diego are reconfigured as they confront cultural and structural forces in their new environments. I adopt an intersectional approach to analyze how gender articulates …

The objective of the present qualitative study is to explore the health beliefs of elderly southern Sudanese immigrants from the Nuer tribe living in Omaha, Nebraska, and Storm Lake, Iowa. Questions surrounding the health beliefs of this population arose when the author worked a…

This dissertation is a study of the gender relations of displacement that are the result of the complex interplay between militarized conflict and development-induced displacement in southern Sudan. The dissertation specifically examines the shifts in gender perceptions and role…