Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda
Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda
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解构边界:乌干达北部南苏丹难民的流动战略
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2021
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Sarah Vancluysen
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作者:
Sarah Vancluysen
Taking the current presence of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda as a case-study, this paper explores how different forms of mobility enable them to better cope with the harsh conditions caused by their displacement. Based on exten-sive field research, the results of this article show how for South Sudanese refugees, crossing borders can be empowering, although these complex strategies do not fit within the mutually exclusive ‘durable solutions’ proposed by the international refugee regime. Looking through a transnational lens, it is illustrated how different forms of movement enable the refugees to hold on to certain aspects of ‘normal life’, such as being employed, enacting customs and visiting loved ones, blur-ring the distinction between voluntary and forced migration. This results in a deepening of transnational networks as the generally large South Sudanese families find their members dispersed across Ugandan and South Sudanese town centres, villages, refugee settlements and third countries in Africa and elsewhere. third part of the respondents refugees’, selected in Adjumani Adjumani is to many South refugees self-settled. the more recent arrivals, some old caseload refugeesaresettledintownuntiltoday,whiletheyregisteredthemselvesagainasrefugeesduringtherecentinflux.In a diversified sample, a purposive sampling technique was applied. the sample was balanced in terms of gender included respondents from 14 different ethnicities, all between 23 and 67-years-old. sample mostly includes new caseload refugees.
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King R
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King R