The Ideal Refugees
Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival| By: | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780815633266 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780815652366 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.