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Oncology. Neoplasms --- South Africa

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On the 9th of July 2011, South Sudan became the world’s youngest nation. Thousands of South Sudanese celebrated on the streets of the capital Juba and elsewhere, filled with hope that the birth of their independent nation would mark the end of a long period of instability and war. At the end of 2013, however, just two years after South Sudan’s independence, the country was again drawn into civil war, causing the displacement of more than four million of its citizens. This thesis focuses on a subsection of these displaced people, namely those who found refuge in northern Uganda. Studies about forced displacement and refugees, are often framed in terms of their exceptionality and focus on the disruption of life in exile more generally. Without downplaying the exceptionalities and rupture associated with displacement in any sense, this thesis studies different aspects of the everyday life of South Sudanese refugees and in doing so, focuses on elements of continuity and connectedness instead. The findings are based on approximately six months of qualitative research in the Adjumani district of northern Uganda, including semi-structured interviews, life stories, informal discussions and observations in and around the selected Adjumani settlements. Before the results are presented, the study is first situated within the broader regional history of the South(ern) Sudan1 and northern Ugandan border region; and a detailed description is provided of Uganda as a (progressive) host for refugees. The core of the thesis consists of four empirical chapters2 that, each from a different perspective, explore how refugees in Adjumani have agency as socio-economic actors, as they participate in socio-economic interactions with the local Ugandan population, are involved in settlement governance by taking up leadership roles, act as key mediators of disputes and tensions in the settlements, and engage in everyday mobilities, to continue with aspects of ‘normal life’, such as attending funerals or celebrations, cultivating land, and visiting loved ones. As such, the Ugandan settlements have become nodes into broader networks, that span Ugandan and South Sudanese villages, towns, cities, as well as locations elsewhere. The overall contribution is to show how refugees negotiate justice, authority and mobility, and to draw attention to the role of continuity and connectedness within those negotiations.

Migration. Refugees --- South Sudan --- Uganda

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Race awareness --- -Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- History --- -South Africa --- Africa, South --- Race relations --- -History --- -Theses --- South Africa --- Awareness --- Theses