The Ideal Refugees

The Ideal Refugees PDF Author: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652364
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
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.