To be or not to be is an analysis of linguistic, cultural, political, economic and social factors, which explain the intricate root causes of conflicts which have ravished Sudan. It stands in stark contrast to the dominant simplification and distortions which have come to typify…
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This project examines the process of return from the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium for British colonial officials and their families. Through an analysis of their correspondence with family and friends in Britain, the symbolic process of returning to their ‘home’ country is apparen…
Due to the disruption of refugee women's lives before, during, and after flight, they take on new roles and responsibilities that raise the need for refugee women to acquire new skills and tools with which to handle their new life. The conventional approach is to look at a refug…
This study is an analysis of the social construction of ethnicity among two groups of Muslim Arab Sudanese in modern-day Cairo: long term expatriates who immigrated to Egypt in the 1940s and recently arrived exiles fleeing political and economic upheaval in Sudan. The study is b…
This thesis examines how the displaced Sudanese in Egypt, Kenya, and the United Kingdom discuss the topic of "Human Rights". Whereas many studies on "Human Rights" are primarily concerned with the opinions of outsiders, an attempt is made here to provide an alternative perspecti…
This study examines the effects of both current and past Sudanese government policies regarding Islamization and Arabization on the roles and status of Nuban women. Societal ills that have resulted from the war such as slavery, discrimination, displacement and rape are discussed…
This dissertation explores the musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and understanding the textual meanings of a particular type of women's songs labeled as “aghani al-banat” that is usually performed at women's gatherings in Central Sudan, specific…
Africans continue to immigrate to the United States voluntarily or involuntarily (Arthur, 2000; Stewart, 1993). Although much has been written about immigrants in the U.S., little literature is available on black immigrants (Rong & Brown, 2002; Arthur, 2000; Dodoo, 1997), and mu…
South Sudanese refugees are strongly motivated to effect change in South Sudan. After resettlement to the US, this motivation has resulted in much transnational political activism on their part. In Australia, Sudanese refugees have concentrated primarily on domestic political an…
This study draws upon the theories of inequality, cross cultural studies, policy analysis, and gender theory in order to explicate the experiences of Sudanese women in education. Examined were state policies, family economic conditions, and socio-cultural attachments that perpet…
This dissertation is about Sudanese refugees in Cairo and is based on ten months fieldwork carried out between August 2003 and June 2004. It highlights the resilience and hope that distinguish refugees' lives despite the odious experience they face on a daily basis. The disserta…
The country of Sudan has experienced violent conflict for much of the past 50 years, killing and displacing millions of Sudanese and generating widespread diaspora. In recent years, international humanitarian resettlement programs have increased the numbers of Africans entering …
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 an ethnography about the making of communal spaces among southern (or Christian, African-oriented) Sudanese displaced in Muslim Arab Cairo, Egypt. Exploring the nature of refugee domains, this dissertation features portraits of refugee communal spaces and re…
The purpose of this study was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's m…
Inadequate government assistance to refugees, negative attitudes of host communities, lack of participation by refugees in community affairs, lack of access to better-paying jobs, and lack of English skills exacerbate dependence on public assistance by refugees. The purpose of t…
This dissertation is a composition, of stories, many stories, of journeys, of people as they moved from Sudan to Canada, confronting and contesting the dominant refugee discourse(s). Stories that also challenge the form and content of academic writing. Form builds on content, mo…