Materialising exile : material culture and embodied experience among Karenni refugees in Thailand /

Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dudley, Sandra H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Colección:Studies in forced migration ; v. 27.
Temas:
Refugees > Burma > Kayah State > Social conditions.
Refugees > Thailand > Social conditions.
Réfugiés > Birmanie > Kayah (État) > Conditions sociales.
Réfugiés > Thaïlande > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Refugees > Social conditions
Burma > Kayah State
Thailand
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-183) and index.
ISBN:9781845458096
1845458095
1282627171
9781282627178
9786612627170
6612627174

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