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'Your Papers or Your Life': The Significance of Documents in the Life Experiences of African Refugees in Israel
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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'Your Papers or Your Life': The Significance of Documents in the Life Experiences of African Refugees in Israel
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| Creator |
Yaron, Hadas
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Anthropology
Documents; Fetishism; Refugees; Africa; Israel |
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| Description |
The article focuses on the role of id papers in the lives of African refugees on their way to and in Israel. In the article, I discuss the way in which documents both encapsulate the past and relations and therefore enable one's future, as much as they monitor and control the everyday lives of displaced persons. I therefore wish to examine the complex relationships between persons, documents and institutions, and the way power is manifested through them. In the article I thus show how refugees are not only helpless, but to an extent also ones who can together with others shape and change the face of their present and future.
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New Proposals Publishing Society
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Amnesty International
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2009-09-22
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article |
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/232
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New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol 3, No 1 (2009); 7-14
1715-6718 |
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| Language |
eng
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| Relation |
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/232/364
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| Coverage |
Africa; Israel
Current Activist research; participant observation, interviews |
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