Research Catalog

Title

Somali and Kurdish refugees in London : new identities in the diaspora / David J. Griffiths.

Author

Griffiths, David J.

Publication

Burlington : Ashgate, ©2002.

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Details

Description

ix, 230 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"A comparative study examining the experience and identity of individuals in two refugee groups living in London. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, it is an original contribution to the study of cultural identity, difference and political organization within refugee communities. Its central concern is the degree to which the individual refugee experience is determined by broader political and cultural processes which occur between the boundaries of home and the country of settlement. Current debates on the nature of ethnicity, cultural identity and Diaspora are shown to have a particular relevance to the study of refugees in countries of exile. The book concludes that the increased profile of refugees in international and domestic politics raises important issues about the ethics and politics of recognition, as the boundaries of the nation-state are increasingly eroded by the forces of globalization."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Research in migration and ethnic relations series

Uniform Title

Research in migration and ethnic relations series

Subject

• Refugees > England > London
• Refugees > Somalia
• Somalis > England > London
• Refugees, Kurdish > England > London
• Kurds > England > London
• Somali diaspora
• Kurds
• Refugees
• Refugees, Kurdish
• Somalis
• Flüchtling
• Kurdischer Flüchtling
• CIVIL WAR
• CLANS
• CULTURAL IDENTITY
• FAMILY
• HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
• KURDS
• MIDDLE EAST
• NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
• REFUGEES
• SOCIAL STRUCTURE
• SOMALIA
• SOMALIS
• TURKEY
• UNITED KINGDOM
• WOMEN
• YOUTH
• England > London
• Somalia
• London
• Somalia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-227) and index.

Contents

1. Refugees, Identity and Diaspora Formation. Approaches to the Study of Refugee Identity. Ethnicity and Cultural Identity. The Concept of Diaspora -- 2. Somalia: the Collapse of the Post-Colonial State. Somalia and the Formation of the Post-Colonial State. Explaining the Somali Crisis. The Clan Basis of Somali Society: Social Structure and Ecology. 'Clannism', Kinship and Market Pastoralism. Clan and Nation-State. Civil War, International Intervention and Retreat -- 3. The Kurds and the Quest for a State. The Search for Recognition. Nation-building and Kurdish Identity in the Middle East. From the Gulf War to the 'Safe Haven' and Beyond -- 4. The Politics of Asylum. Growing Restrictionism. The Reception and Resettlement of Somalis and Kurds -- 5. Clanship and New Identities. Clanship and Communal Identities. Gender and the Reconstruction of Tradition. Generation and Change -- 6. Securing the Boundaries of National Identity. Forging the Nation. Diaspora and National Renewal. 'Becoming Kurdish': the Discovery of Identity. Defining Roles. Representing the Nation -- 7. Fragmentation and Consolidation. The Role of Community Associations. Somalis and the Rhetoric of Invisibility. The Contraction of the Public Sphere. The Causes of Fragmentation. The Kurds and the Quest for Recognition. The Purification of Culture and the Political Project. The Consolidation of National Identity. Comparative Issues: Fragmentation and Consolidation. App. 1. Fieldwork and the Role of Comparison -- App. 2. The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan.

ISBN

• 0754617017
• 9780754617013

LCCN

2002023961

OCLC

• ocm49226279
• 49226279
• SCSB-1306734

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library