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Title: | From 'migrants' to 'refugees': identity, aid, and decolonization in Ngara district, Tanzania |
Author: | Rosenthal, Jill |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 56 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 261-279 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Rwandans refugees nation building decolonization |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853715000225 |
Abstract: | This article argues that international aid to Rwandan refugees in Ngara district during decolonization unfolded as part of a broader project of nation-state formation and regulation - one that deeply affected local narratives of community and belonging. While there is an extensive scholarship on decolonization and nationalism, we know less about the history of the nation-state as a refugee-generating project, and the role of international aid agencies therein. The history of Rwandan refugees in Ngara district, Tanzania, reveals the constitutive relationship between nation-building and refugee experiences, illustrating that during decolonization local political imaginations congealed around internationally-reified categorizations of the 'refugee' and the 'citizen'. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |