The Ideal Refugees

Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

von Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

360 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarised and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature. Drawing on extensive research the author explores to what effect such idealised depictions have been projected onto the international arena.