Representing Refugees: The Role of Elites in Burundi Refugee Society
作者:
MARC SOMMERS,
期刊:
Disasters
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 1
页码: 19-25
ISSN:0361-3666
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7717.1995.tb00329.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Among Burundi refugees in Tanzania, men who have a university education and know English or French are most likely to represent their concerns to officials, particularly those from UNHCR. Officials consequently learn about the perspectives of refugees from these men. Based upon findings from two years of field, research in Tanzania, the history of relations between ethnic Hutu elites and the peasantry in Burundi is outlined and it is explained why education has assumed such pronounced significance in Burundi refugee society. The use of ethnicity as a political tool for elite refugees is also described. It is concluded that elite refugees may not, as is often claimed, represent the refugee majority.
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