'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in EgyptBerghahn Books, 1. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 204 Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community. |
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... relations. This inequality is represented culturally as ethnic consciousness, upon which 'it tends to take on a “natural” appearance of an autonomous force' (1992: 79). Consequently, ethnicity may be perpetuated by completely different ...
... relations, there is still a marked tendency to view migration in terms of movement between national 'containers' (Wimmer and Schiller 2003). Hoerder asks us to shift our perspective from the nineteenth-century nation-centred paradigm to ...
... relations between Sudanese. Something similar has been noted by White, who distinguishes two components of Turkish identity in Germany: an external one 'visible as ethnic or other named categories and focused 14 | 'Brothers' or Others?
... relations in a changing and unstable social environment. She notes that observers might overlook internal processes of building relationships and communities due to the traditional focus on external behavioural or linguistic ...
... relations with the states that accommodate them, and shifting with inflows and outflows of people. Since diasporic communities in various host countries may have as much contact with each other as with the homeland, and the content as ...
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Part IIModernity and Otherness | 51 |
Chapter 3Creating Foreigners Becoming Exiles | 53 |
Chapter 4Presenting Sudanese Differences | 77 |
Part IIINeither Brothers nor Others | 95 |
Chapter 5Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity | 97 |
Chapter 6A Sudanese Culture of Exile in Cairo | 121 |
Chapter 7Gender Diaspora and Transformation | 151 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 179 |
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