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Making refuge : Somali Bantu refugees and Lewiston, Maine / Catherine Besteman.

Title
Making refuge : Somali Bantu refugees and Lewiston, Maine / Catherine Besteman.
Author
Besteman, Catherine Lowe
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
Summary
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia's civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate coresidence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman's account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes.
Series Statement
Global insecurities
Uniform Title
Global insecurities.
Subject
  • Somalis > Cultural assimilation > Maine > Lewiston
  • Somali diaspora
  • Bürgerkrieg in Somalia
  • Somal
  • Bantu
  • Flüchtling
  • Diaspora Religion
  • Soziale Integration
  • Lewiston (Me.) > Ethnic relations
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Becoming refugees -- The humanitarian condition -- Becoming Somali Bantus -- We have responded valiantly -- Strangers in our midst -- Helpers in the neoliberal borderlands -- Making refuge -- These are our kids -- The way life should be.
ISBN
  • 9780822360278
  • 0822360276
  • 9780822360445
  • 0822360446
  • 9780822374725 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0822374722 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2015026280
OCLC
  • 906010531
  • SCSB-12016806
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library