Mothers of steel: the women of Um Gargur, an Eritrean refugee settlement in Sudan

Thesis

This is an ethnographic study of the lives and experiences of Eritrean refugee women in Um Gargur, a settlement in eastern Sudan established in 1976. It is based upon fourteen months of fieldwork and builds upon the findings of my 1985 M.Phil, thesis, "A Preliminary Study of the Position of Eritrean Refugees in the Sudan", for which I conducted two months of research in Urn Gargur. While the M.Phil, thesis was a comparative study of Um Gargur and two other cases of resettlement in Africa,...

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Authors: Bright, N; Bright, Nancee Oku

• Publication date: 1992
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Subjects: Women refugees; Refugee camps; Refugee experiences; Sudan; Eritreans; Cultural identity; Theses; Gender role; Displaced persons; Anthropology; Water-supply; Exile; Um Gargur; Family