In South Sudan, since a tentative peace deal was signed with the help of the international community that seems to be holding, many people seem to be evaluating what to do next. As of October 2020, UNHCR has made an official statement regarding South Sudanese refugees returning home in the current climate. “In recent years, […]
Author: Caitlin Wischmeyer
What does education look like for South Sudanese kids in the midst of a civil war?
My research looking at the manner in which the South Soudanese displaced people deals with the temporary or semi-permanent displacement through the lens of education. With my next post, I discuss thoughts on returning home now that the state has entered into a tentative peace deal. South Sudan has been engaged in a civil war […]
Stories of the new ‘forgotten generation’ in South Sudan
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long and bloody civil war. Only two years after that South Sudan fell into another long and bloody civil war that started in 2013. In 2016 it was estimated that 50,000 people had been killed and 1.6 million displaced. In 2017 the number of displaced […]
The question: to migrate or to not migrate? Both exude agency, both are controlled by structures.
Gender is an important dimension of migration. Female migration workers in the past have been dismissed and defined through the patriarchal structures of society as wife, mother, and dependent on the male breadwinner. Through different aspects of international migration, however, these structures and prescribed gender roles have been slowly challenged through traditional family models, and […]
Do Economies Have to Boom for Migration to Happen?
Once countries started recovering from the devastation of WWII, economies needed to be rebuilt. The USSR had built its command economy around the idea of high levels of extensive growth achieved by a division of labor between countries in Eastern Europe (Comecon) and industrialization. This depended on large amounts of labor as extensive growth meant […]