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Book SynopsisIn one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf places her community into context, showing its increasing historical and political significance.
Trade ReviewWanderings is a sensitive portrayal of the diverse Sudanese community in North America. It is also highly readable, partly because the author allows immigrants to speak for themselves by frequently including excerpts from conversations and interviews. The details of this book are Sudanese, but the core immigrant experience it examines—of struggling to make a new home while trying to preserve links to an old one—has universal resonance and appeal.
-- Heather J. Sharkey * International Journal of African Historical Studies 36:1 *
Abusharaf discusses the variety of Sudanese migrants who came to North America in the 20th century.... Wanderings is valuable in demonstrating recent immigrant attitudes toward a new environment.
* Choice *
This interesting study presents a nicely textured picture of the Sudanese diaspora in the United States and Canada, surveying the reasons people left home, their economic and social coping strategies, their reluctance to assimilate non-Sudanese lifestyles, and their attitudes regarding religion, traditional customs, women's status, and politics at home.
* Foreign Affairs *
