The American University in Cairo
School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) Seminar Series
May 16, 2016
6th floor Lounge
, Hill House,
AUC
, Tahrir Campus
6:30-8:00pm
“Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan”
Speaker:
Katarzyna Grabska
Research fellow, Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies, Geneva
How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their ‘homes’ in South Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate sense of home, community and nation?
During the civil wars in Southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to Southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of ‘proper behaviour’, they often felt displaced again.
In this presentation, Grabska will present the findings of her recent book in which she followed the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change and show how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan and, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations.
Refreshments will be served.
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
The American University in Cairo
http://schools.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/Pages/default.aspx
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