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Transnational Nomads
Cindy Horst
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Description for Transnational Nomads
Hardback. The daily pictures of refugee camps, mostly in Africa, tell how the refugees manage to survive under the abject conditions. This study of Somalis, in a camp in Kenya, offers some explanations. The author argues that it is wrong to look at the camps in isolation but that one has to consider historical, social and transnational dimensions. Num Pages: 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JFFD; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions.
This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their 'nomadic' heritage in order to cope with camp life; a heritage that includes a high degree of mobility and strong social networks that reach beyond the confines ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451295
SKU
V9781845451295
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Ref
99-15
About Cindy Horst
Cindy Horst holds a PhD in Anthropology and completed a foundation year at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. She carried out extensive fieldwork amongst Somalis in Kenyan refugee camps and towns between 1995 and 2001 and in Europe and also worked for a refugee-assisting NGO. Cindy is Senior Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Reviews for Transnational Nomads
A FORCED MIGRATION CURRENT AWARENESS BLOG BOOK OF THE DECADE "Cindy Horst's, Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya (Berghahn Books, 2006) provides an excellent example of contemporary anthropology, mercifully free of the impenetrable post-modernism that now plagues this academic discipline. It is by far the best account of what ... Read more