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Author Baak, Melanie, author

Title Negotiating belongings : stories of forced migration of Dinka women from South Sudan / Melanie Baak
Published Rotterdam, the Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 231 pages .)
Series Studies in inclusive education ; volume 30
Studies in inclusive education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 30.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EXPLANATION OF KEY DINKA WORDS; MAPS; NOTE; CHAPTER 1: HAUNTED JOURNEYS: Being, Becoming and Belonging; INTRODUCTION; DESIRING BELONGING AND ITS POLITICS; INTERLUDE I: ON DESIRING BELONGING; BEING AND BECOMING: THE CHANGING SAME; HAUNTED JOURNEYS; Journeying; Haunting; INTERLUDE II: ON HAUNTED JOURNEYS; CIENG: A JËËNG ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; NOTES; CHAPTER 2: FRIENDSHIP AND NEGOTIATING BELONGINGS THROUGH RESEARCH; INTRODUCTION; LIVING ON THE EDGE: THE INSIDE-OUT/OUTSIDE-IN RESEARCHER; POWER AND AN ETHIC OF FRIENDSHIP
ABUK, ACHOL, ATONG, NYALONG AND NYANUT: THE WOMENFRIENDSHIP AS METHOD; HEARING THROUGH 'NEW' WAYS OF LISTENING; CONCLUSION: BUILDING BELONGING AND FRIENDSHIP THROUGH RESEARCH; NOTES; CHAPTER 3: BECOMING NATIONALS, BEING AND BECOMING CITIZENS: Searching for Belonging in the Nation-State; INTERLUDE III: AM I UN-AUSTRALIAN?; INTRODUCTION; 'NEW RACISMS' AND NATIONALISM IN BECOMING NATIONALS; Not Being Sudanese in Sudan; 'Passing' and Becoming Sudanese in Exile; Sudanese in Australia and Sudanese Australians: The Quandary of 'Black' Australians
VIOLENCE, QUASI-CITIZENSHIP AND 'FEELING' IN BEING AND BECOMING CITIZENSCitizens by Birth, Non-Citizens by Violence; Quasi-Citizenship in Exile; Becoming but not Feeling Like Citizens; CONCLUSION: IS IT POSSIBLE TO BELONG TO THE NATION-STATE?; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: BEING AND BECOMING DIÄÄRJÄNG; INTERLUDE IV: BETWEEN BEING AND BECOMING A TIENGJÄNG; On Being; & And Becoming; INTRODUCTION; WHO ARE DIÄÄRJÄNG? ETHNICITY AND GENDER; MIGRATION IN BEING AND BECOMING DIÄÄRJÄNG; THE ASPECTS OF BEING AND BECOMING DIÄÄRJÄNG; Becoming Diäärjäng through Marriage
Labouring: The Duties of Being and Becoming DiäärjängBeing and Becoming Diäärjäng through Mothering; CONCLUSION: SHIFTING GENDERED ETHNICITIES; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: NEGOTIATING BELONGINGS THROUGH 'LOCAL' PLACE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD; INTERLUDE V: BETWEEN EXCLUSION AND BELONGING IN THE MADING AWEIL COMMUNITY IN ADELAIDE; INTRODUCTION; ON 'LOCAL' PLACE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD; 'US' AND THE 'OTHER' IN THE PRODUCTION OF GLOCAL COMMUNITIES; CONTESTING AND NEGOTIATING BELONGING IN THE GLOCAL MADING AWEIL COMMUNITY; Achol on Glocal Mading Aweil Belonging in Adelaide
Nyalong on Glocal Mading Aweil Belonging in NairobiNyalong on Glocal Mading Aweil Belonging in Adelaide; CONCLUSION: HAUNTED GLOCAL BELONGINGS; NOTES; CHAPTER 6: KOOC PAN DA: Negotiating Belonging with 'The People of Our Place'; INTERLUDE VI: BELONGING AND THE FAMILY OF BIRTH; INTRODUCTION; THE BIOLOGICAL, THE SOCIAL AND GENDER IN NEGOTIATING BELONGING WITH KIN AND FAMILY; The Social and the Biological of Kin and Family; The Gender of Kin and Family; Negotiating Kin and Family; NEGOTIATING BELONGINGS THROUGH GENDER, THE BIOLOGICAL AND THE SOCIAL IN PAN MUONYJÄNG
Summary Belonging is an issue that affects us all, but for those who have been displaced, unsettled or made 'homeless' by the increased movements associated with the contemporary globalising era, belonging is under constant challenge. Migration throws into question not only the belongings of those who physically migrate, but also, particularly in a postcolonial context, the belongings of those who are indigenous to and 'settlers' in countries of migration, subsequent generations born to migrants, and those who are left behind in countries of origin. Negotiating Belongings utilises narrative, ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches to explore the negotiations for belonging for six women from Dinka communities originating in southern Sudan. It explores belonging, particularly in relation to migration, through a consideration of belonging to nation-states, ethnic groups, community, family and kin. In exploring how the journeys towards desired belongings are haunted by various social processes such as colonisation, power, 'race' and gender, the author argues that negotiating belonging is a continual movement between being and becoming. The research utilises and demands different ways of listening to and really hearing the narratives of the women as embedded within non-Western epistemologies and ontologies. Through this it develops an understanding of the relational ontology, cieng, that governs the ways in which the women exist in the world. The women's narratives alongside the author's experience within the Dinka community provide particular ways to interrogate the intersections of being and becoming on the haunted journey to belonging. The relational ontology of cieng provides an additional way of understanding belonging, becoming and being as always relational
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dinka (African people) -- Relocation -- Australia
Forced migration -- South Sudan
Emigration and immigration.
emigration.
Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
immigration.
migrations (events)
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
Forced migration
Emigration and immigration
Education
South Sudan
Australia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789463005883
9463005889