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…
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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…
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 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…
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…
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 discusses the Sudanese Mahdiyya, focusing on how symbols, ceremony and ritual of the nascent Islamic state in the first Islamic century, as well as symbols of Islamic mysticism, were employed by the Mahdist elites to enunciate power, authority and legitimacy in…
My thesis examines how southern Sudanese women refugees understand the social, cultural, economic and political transformations that have affected their lives in exile. It intends to show how these women use their experiences to re-evaluate their past and to challenge the image …
In recent times, oil pollution from Multinational Oil Companies ("MNOCs") operations in some Third World oil-producing countries and its negative impact on local oil communities has become a major concern. Mainly, oil dumping, oil spills, pipelines leakage, and excessive gas fla…
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…
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…
Through this ethnographic study, I examined literacy practices among Sudanese refugees, focusing on the ways in which refugee families make sense of and negotiate texts and practices in the U.S. These refugees relied upon literacy brokers to help them understand issues related t…
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…
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 …