Author's Note | |
Acknowledgments | |
An Airport Scene | |
Introduction: Departing | p. 1 |
Inaugural Migration to North America | |
The First to Arrive: Sati Majid, 1904-29 | p. 17 |
The Bahhara: An Immigrant Community | p. 33 |
Post-1989 Migration: Four Experiences | |
Southern Sudanese: A Community in Exile | p. 49 |
Beyond the Storm: Sudanese Post-Gulf War Migration | p. 72 |
The Copts: A Perpetual Diaspora | p. 81 |
Migration with a Feminine Face: Breaking the Cultural Mold | p. 93 |
The Ghorba: Life in Exile | |
Economic Bearings | p. 115 |
Finding Refuge in the Shrine of Culture | p. 128 |
Political Life | p. 156 |
Epilogue: Racialization and a Nation in Absentia | p. 164 |
Glossary | p. 169 |
References | p. 173 |
Index | p. 185 |
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