TY - JOUR
T1 - Place-making, provisional return, and well-being: Iraqi refugee women in Australia
AU - Vasey, Katherine Elizabeth
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Returning to Iraq, even for a visit, was something Iraqi refugees residing in Australia could only dream about while Saddam Hussein remained in power because the ongoing social, economic, and political conditions made return impossible. Despite danger and chaos, the fall of Saddam Husseina??s regime (Maya??December 2003) gave exiled Iraqis the unique opportunity to visit their homelands. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted with 26 Iraqi Shia??i women from refugee backgrounds who resettled in a small country town in Australia. I explored their experiences of provisional return to Iraq, and questioned how their return influences their a??homea?? making in Australia. In this context, I interrogated the complex, contradictory and ambivalent relationships that Iraqi women developed with both their host and home countries and how this impacted upon their well-being
AB - Returning to Iraq, even for a visit, was something Iraqi refugees residing in Australia could only dream about while Saddam Hussein remained in power because the ongoing social, economic, and political conditions made return impossible. Despite danger and chaos, the fall of Saddam Husseina??s regime (Maya??December 2003) gave exiled Iraqis the unique opportunity to visit their homelands. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted with 26 Iraqi Shia??i women from refugee backgrounds who resettled in a small country town in Australia. I explored their experiences of provisional return to Iraq, and questioned how their return influences their a??homea?? making in Australia. In this context, I interrogated the complex, contradictory and ambivalent relationships that Iraqi women developed with both their host and home countries and how this impacted upon their well-being
UR - http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/article/viewFile/36086/32756
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 25
EP - 35
JO - Refuge
JF - Refuge
SN - 0229-5113
IS - 1
ER -