The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

ISBN-13: 9780815633266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Opis

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal
spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants
have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely
secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender
equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi
refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, Fiddian-
Qasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized
depictions have been projected onto the international arena.