Already in America: Transnational Homemaking among Liberian Refugees

This article explores how refugees at the Buduburam Liberian refugee settlement in Ghana constructed and imagined home in and through a place they have never been to—“America.” Drawing on ethnographic examples of homemaking at Buduburam, this article develops the concept of entanglement to show how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Micah M. Trapp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: York University Libraries 2015-04-01
Series:Refuge
Online Access:https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40140