Memories Of A Ugandan Refugee
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| Author | : Jalal Jaffer |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2022-03-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1039116159 |
Forced to flee from one’s homeland with only a few suitcases, most would be bitter. However, Memories of a Ugandan Refugee is a story of gratitude for a country that opened its arms to those needing a safe harbour. Within its pages, Jalal Jaffer tells his story of growing up in Uganda and his dangerous escape from his country with his wife, Shamshad, when they and thousands of other Asians are forcibly expelled by Idi Amin in 1972. Feeling blessed with the “warm embrace” offered them in Canada, Jalal and his wife quickly adapt to their new country and eventually settle in Vancouver. After completing a law degree and being called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1978, Jalal balances his work and family life with service to the Canadian Ismaili Muslim community. Taking on increasing senior leadership roles in the community, Jalal serves two terms as Chairman of the Ismaili Tariqah & Religious Education Board for Canada (ITREB) and is named the Mukhi of Darkhana of Canada in 2002. As he documents the blessings he receives through service, he also captures important history of the growth of Ismaili Muslim institutions both in Canada and internationally. Filled with recollections and anecdotes – some meaningful and some humorous – of fascinating times, events, and people, as well as interesting reflections and moving poetry, Memories of a Ugandan Refugee is ultimately about one man’s journey on this planet as he seeks to live life well and serve family and community.
| Author | : Jochen Lingelbach |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2020-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178920447X |
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.
| Author | : Vanessa Agnew |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2020-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3839450136 |
The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, the contributions to this volume draw attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects with memories, hopes, needs, rights, and a prospective place in collective memory. The book's wide-ranging theoretical, literary, artistic, and autobiographical contributions appeal to scholarly and lay readers who share concerns about the fate of the displaced in relation to the emplaced in this age of mass mobility.
| Author | : Dragon Klaic |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Theater |
| ISBN | : 9781841506371 |
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption--as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage, Dragan Klaic argues convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and the considerable benefit this confers on the public.
| Author | : Anaheed Al-Hardan |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2016-04-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0231541228 |
One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Integrating into Syrian society over time, their experience stands in stark contrast to the plight of Palestinian refugees in other Arab countries, leading to different ways through which to understand the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, in their popular memory. Conducting interviews with first-, second-, and third-generation members of Syria's Palestinian community, Anaheed Al-Hardan follows the evolution of the Nakba—the central signifier of the Palestinian refugee past and present—in Arab intellectual discourses, Syria's Palestinian politics, and the community's memorialization. Al-Hardan's sophisticated research sheds light on the enduring relevance of the Nakba among the communities it helped create, while challenging the nationalist and patriotic idea that memories of the Nakba are static and universally shared among Palestinians. Her study also critically tracks the Nakba's changing meaning in light of Syria's twenty-first-century civil war.
| Author | : Vinh Nguyen |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1487508646 |
Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.
| Author | : Siobhan Brownlie |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2020-02-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030343790 |
This book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series of studies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together the studies shed light on this overlooked area of research. The studies or ‘facets’ presented in the monograph cover a range of contexts and discursive genres: a joint BBC/refugee-authored television documentary, refugees’ oral histories, creative life writing by asylum seekers, parliamentarians’ debates, a reworking of canonical texts and sites in a protest campaign, and non-fiction testimonies and fictional works by later generations of refugee background. The monograph introduces ‘facet methodology’ to memory studies, arguing that this approach could encourage interdisciplinary research in the field.
| Author | : Nergis Canefe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2019-11-07 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108422063 |
Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.
| Author | : Urmila Patel |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2014-08-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781500774295 |
Ms. Patel's startling memoir of survival, and escape from Idi Amin's Uganda, is an amazing journey through cultures, beliefs, and life-and-death passions. her girlhood growing up in an Indian Hindu family living in the East African nation of Uganda in the 1960s and 1970s. Like all those of Asian lineage, they were expelled from the country when the brutal dictator, Idi Amin, seized power. Ms. Patel describes their life before Amin, as seen through the eyes of a young girl. When the violence began, she was just beginning her passage into womanhood. Amin started encouraging violence toward Uganda's Asian community as soon as he took over. This escalated, until the brutal dictator expelled all Asians, giving them 90 days to leave, or they would face death. Meanwhile his followers engaged in random murders, and more and more frequent massacres. Ms. Patel and her family witnessed much of this. At one point she even stood up to Amin's murderous soldiers, yet she lived to tell her tale.
| Author | : Gary N. Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780829427011 |
For years, Gary Smith, a Jesuit priest, led a familiar life in the Pacific Northwest. Then, one day in 2000, he left that life behind to spend six years among Sudanese refugees struggling to survive in refugee camps in northern Uganda. He traveled to this dangerous, pitiless place to be with these forsaken people out of a conviction that "Jesuits should be going where no one else goes." Smith's journal is a vivid, inspiring account of the deep connections he forged during his life-changing experience with the Sudanese refugees in Uganda. Along the way, he discovered a suffering people who, despite being displaced by a brutal civil war, find the strength to let go of the many and deep sorrows of the past. Ultimately, They Come Back Singing is a window to the spiritual life and growth of a priest whose generous spirit and genuine love allow him to serve--and be served--in truly extraordinary ways.
