Katarzyna Grabska
Biographic Data
| ID | 3670948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarzyna Grabska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarzyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Grabska |
| SIGNATURE | GRABSKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
L’exposition 120 vaches
Cet article revient sur le processus d’élaboration de l’exposition 120 vaches (2019) afin d’illustrer et d’expliciter la démarche coopérative et la dynamique collective mise en place entre la militante féministe, les chercheuses – l’une géographe, l’autre anthropologue – et l’artiste et curateur de l’exposition. L’objectif est de souligner les perspectives ouvertes par les projets dans lesquels artistes et chercheur·es se mobilisent avec, par et …
Documenting Displacement
This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers
Visual Storytelling about Genocide, Displacement, and Exile
In this article, I examine encounters with an artist and his art: Cambodian exile filmmaker Rithy Panh. In his cinematographic and artwork, Rithy Panh comes to terms with his childhood, the death of his family, and the suffering of his people during the Khmer Rouge regime and the genocide in Cambodia. Conflict and displacement are themes usually approached by researchers using language-based methods, which do not give us fully adequate insights i…
Ali Nada Mustafa. — Gender, Race and Sudan’s Exile Politics
“Do we all belong to this country?” asks Nada Mustafa Ali in her book entitled: Gender, Race and Sudan’s Exile Politics. The title of the book is taken from a speech given in 1998 in Cairo by anthropologist Sharif Harir, the vice president of the Sudan Federal Democratic Party and member of the Sudan’s National Democratic Alliance’s executive office at that time, in which he discussed structural racism in the Old Sudan. While the issues of racism…
Exposition 120 vaches
En février 2019, l’exposition 120 vaches s’ouvrait au CAP (Centre d’Arts Plastiques) de Saint-Fons, en banlieue lyonnaise, où elle a duré jusqu’en fin mars 2019. L’ambition de cette exposition artistique et documentaire était de comprendre et de donner à voir la révolte de figures féminines à travers les questions de discrimination envers les femmes de toutes origines culturelles et sociales en convoquant des pratiques documentaires (vidéo), théâ…
Wasting time’
Eritrean adolescent girls’ migration to Khartoum exposes the interplay between aspiration and desire of becoming an adult linked to a specific geographical location, dreams of being else-where, impossibilities of returning, and realities of uncertainties and being-stuck inbetween. This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Eritrean adolescent refugee girls and young women in Khartoum (2014–2016), who see Sudan as a transit place to an im…
The South Sudan House in Amarat
This article presents our first reflections and impressions on two separate ethnographic fieldworks carried out between 2015 and 2016, and offers insights into a particular enclave of South Sudan in a Khartoum neighbourhood, Amarat. It discusses the wider issues that have emerged as a result of the separation of the two Sudans. In July 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation, and broke away from Northern Sudan. The break-up was a violent e…
Threatening miniskirts
“And When I Become a Man”
In this article, we argue that return in the aftermath of conflict-induced displacement is often undertaken in contexts of uncertainty. After years spent in war and displacement, people return to an unknown and uncertain present and future, shaped by ideal images of home and brutal memories of conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among South Sudanese refugees in Kenya and Canada and returnees in South Sudan, we analyze the 'return home' stra…
Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement
This introduction addresses the ways in which flight and exile create particular types of uncertainty, including both radical and protracted, in people's lives. We argue that the concept of uncertainty, in its meaning of imperfect knowledge and the unpredictability of the future, is central to studies that theorize conflict-induced displacement, transit, and refugeeness. We start with an exploration of the spatial and temporal aspects of uncertai…
Negotiating one position
The paper explores intra-governmental processes in migration policy-making, using the example of Switzerland and examining its preparations for chairing the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2011. Switzerland's “one joint position”, presented at the forum, required intensive negotiations and cooperation between different Swiss federal offices. The paper highlights how and why Switzerland achieved this joint position. It analyses the intra…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
The Return of Displaced Nuer in Southern Sudan
Conceptualizing war-time displacement as a catalyst for social change, this article examines the gendered emplacement experiences of returnee displaced women in the aftermath of the recent (1983-2005) civil war in South Sudan. The article attempts to shed light on the strategies of returnee women in transforming and contributing to their communities in the context of an independent South Sudan. It focuses specifically on their gendered emplacemen…
Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men
Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ‘empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often over-simplified and essentialised in gender mains…
Lost boys, invisible girls
Forced migration challenges and changes gender relations. The transnational activities of refugees resettled in the West create gender asymmetries among those who stay behind. This article explores the transnational marriages of young southern Sudanese women (‘invisible girls’), who either stayed in Sudan or remained in refugee camps in Kenya, to Sudanese men who were resettled to America, Canada or Australia (‘lost boys’). Incorporating gender a…
Sudanese Women Refugees
Although gender and gender relations have now been widely acknowledged as an important analytical and conceptual framework in the study of refugees and forced migrants, the voices of women refugees in the urban South are rarely heard. This book, based on the author's doctoral research carried out in Cairo, explores the social, economic, political and cultural transformations that have affected southern Sudanese women in exile and how these experi…
Marginalization in Urban Spaces of the Global South
The paper explores the marginalization of Sudanese refugees in Cairo, arguing that although socially, economically, culturally and politically marginalized, refugees participate and contribute to the transformation of urban spaces in Cairo, as they do elsewhere in the developing world. The paper finds that in terms of legal security and livelihood coping strategies, there is little difference between those refugees with legal status and those res…
Marginalization in Urban Spaces of the Global South
The paper explores the marginalization of Sudanese refugees in Cairo, arguing that although socially, economically, culturally and politically marginalized, refugees participate and contribute to the transformation of urban spaces in Cairo, as they do elsewhere in the developing world. The paper finds that in terms of legal security and livelihood coping strategies, there is little difference between those refugees with legal status and those res…
Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men
Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ‘empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often over-simplified and essentialised in gender mains…
Lost boys, invisible girls
Forced migration challenges and changes gender relations. The transnational activities of refugees resettled in the West create gender asymmetries among those who stay behind. This article explores the transnational marriages of young southern Sudanese women (‘invisible girls’), who either stayed in Sudan or remained in refugee camps in Kenya, to Sudanese men who were resettled to America, Canada or Australia (‘lost boys’). Incorporating gender a…
Wasting time’
Eritrean adolescent girls’ migration to Khartoum exposes the interplay between aspiration and desire of becoming an adult linked to a specific geographical location, dreams of being else-where, impossibilities of returning, and realities of uncertainties and being-stuck inbetween. This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Eritrean adolescent refugee girls and young women in Khartoum (2014–2016), who see Sudan as a transit place to an im…
The Return of Displaced Nuer in Southern Sudan
Conceptualizing war-time displacement as a catalyst for social change, this article examines the gendered emplacement experiences of returnee displaced women in the aftermath of the recent (1983-2005) civil war in South Sudan. The article attempts to shed light on the strategies of returnee women in transforming and contributing to their communities in the context of an independent South Sudan. It focuses specifically on their gendered emplacemen…
The South Sudan House in Amarat
This article presents our first reflections and impressions on two separate ethnographic fieldworks carried out between 2015 and 2016, and offers insights into a particular enclave of South Sudan in a Khartoum neighbourhood, Amarat. It discusses the wider issues that have emerged as a result of the separation of the two Sudans. In July 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation, and broke away from Northern Sudan. The break-up was a violent e…
Marginalization in Urban Spaces of the Global South
The paper explores the marginalization of Sudanese refugees in Cairo, arguing that although socially, economically, culturally and politically marginalized, refugees participate and contribute to the transformation of urban spaces in Cairo, as they do elsewhere in the developing world. The paper finds that in terms of legal security and livelihood coping strategies, there is little difference between those refugees with legal status and those res…
Sudanese Women Refugees
Although gender and gender relations have now been widely acknowledged as an important analytical and conceptual framework in the study of refugees and forced migrants, the voices of women refugees in the urban South are rarely heard. This book, based on the author's doctoral research carried out in Cairo, explores the social, economic, political and cultural transformations that have affected southern Sudanese women in exile and how these experi…
Lost boys, invisible girls
Forced migration challenges and changes gender relations. The transnational activities of refugees resettled in the West create gender asymmetries among those who stay behind. This article explores the transnational marriages of young southern Sudanese women (‘invisible girls’), who either stayed in Sudan or remained in refugee camps in Kenya, to Sudanese men who were resettled to America, Canada or Australia (‘lost boys’). Incorporating gender a…
Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men
Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ‘empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often over-simplified and essentialised in gender mains…
The Return of Displaced Nuer in Southern Sudan
Conceptualizing war-time displacement as a catalyst for social change, this article examines the gendered emplacement experiences of returnee displaced women in the aftermath of the recent (1983-2005) civil war in South Sudan. The article attempts to shed light on the strategies of returnee women in transforming and contributing to their communities in the context of an independent South Sudan. It focuses specifically on their gendered emplacemen…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Threatening miniskirts
“And When I Become a Man”
In this article, we argue that return in the aftermath of conflict-induced displacement is often undertaken in contexts of uncertainty. After years spent in war and displacement, people return to an unknown and uncertain present and future, shaped by ideal images of home and brutal memories of conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among South Sudanese refugees in Kenya and Canada and returnees in South Sudan, we analyze the 'return home' stra…
Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement
This introduction addresses the ways in which flight and exile create particular types of uncertainty, including both radical and protracted, in people's lives. We argue that the concept of uncertainty, in its meaning of imperfect knowledge and the unpredictability of the future, is central to studies that theorize conflict-induced displacement, transit, and refugeeness. We start with an exploration of the spatial and temporal aspects of uncertai…
Negotiating one position
The paper explores intra-governmental processes in migration policy-making, using the example of Switzerland and examining its preparations for chairing the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2011. Switzerland's “one joint position”, presented at the forum, required intensive negotiations and cooperation between different Swiss federal offices. The paper highlights how and why Switzerland achieved this joint position. It analyses the intra…
The South Sudan House in Amarat
This article presents our first reflections and impressions on two separate ethnographic fieldworks carried out between 2015 and 2016, and offers insights into a particular enclave of South Sudan in a Khartoum neighbourhood, Amarat. It discusses the wider issues that have emerged as a result of the separation of the two Sudans. In July 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation, and broke away from Northern Sudan. The break-up was a violent e…
Wasting time’
Eritrean adolescent girls’ migration to Khartoum exposes the interplay between aspiration and desire of becoming an adult linked to a specific geographical location, dreams of being else-where, impossibilities of returning, and realities of uncertainties and being-stuck inbetween. This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Eritrean adolescent refugee girls and young women in Khartoum (2014–2016), who see Sudan as a transit place to an im…
Ali Nada Mustafa. — Gender, Race and Sudan’s Exile Politics
“Do we all belong to this country?” asks Nada Mustafa Ali in her book entitled: Gender, Race and Sudan’s Exile Politics. The title of the book is taken from a speech given in 1998 in Cairo by anthropologist Sharif Harir, the vice president of the Sudan Federal Democratic Party and member of the Sudan’s National Democratic Alliance’s executive office at that time, in which he discussed structural racism in the Old Sudan. While the issues of racism…
Exposition 120 vaches
En février 2019, l’exposition 120 vaches s’ouvrait au CAP (Centre d’Arts Plastiques) de Saint-Fons, en banlieue lyonnaise, où elle a duré jusqu’en fin mars 2019. L’ambition de cette exposition artistique et documentaire était de comprendre et de donner à voir la révolte de figures féminines à travers les questions de discrimination envers les femmes de toutes origines culturelles et sociales en convoquant des pratiques documentaires (vidéo), théâ…
Documenting Displacement
This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers
Visual Storytelling about Genocide, Displacement, and Exile
In this article, I examine encounters with an artist and his art: Cambodian exile filmmaker Rithy Panh. In his cinematographic and artwork, Rithy Panh comes to terms with his childhood, the death of his family, and the suffering of his people during the Khmer Rouge regime and the genocide in Cambodia. Conflict and displacement are themes usually approached by researchers using language-based methods, which do not give us fully adequate insights i…
L’exposition 120 vaches
Cet article revient sur le processus d’élaboration de l’exposition 120 vaches (2019) afin d’illustrer et d’expliciter la démarche coopérative et la dynamique collective mise en place entre la militante féministe, les chercheuses – l’une géographe, l’autre anthropologue – et l’artiste et curateur de l’exposition. L’objectif est de souligner les perspectives ouvertes par les projets dans lesquels artistes et chercheur·es se mobilisent avec, par et …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works)