The Commercialisation of Biomedicine and the Politics of Flight in Zanzibar, Tanzania

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ID3628280
AuthorsDavid Parkin (0000-0002-9990-8208)
Year2006
Volume32
Issue4
Pages697-714
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691830600610114
OpenAlexW2071958970
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Asylum-seekers from Zanzibar feel obliged to highlight what they regard as criteria for entry and settlement in the UK which are acceptable to the British authorities. This is one dimension of a narrative of physical and socio-economic ill-being which covers political persecution. A second dimension is that deriving from the seekers’ own domestic and socio-cultural circumstances, in which relationships of family, political party, workplace and geography are woven into the narrative. The latter dimension, though of vital importance to any understanding of the seekers’ plight, is not normally considered by the Home Office as part of its official remit. These elements are illustrated through the presentation of three case-studies of asylum-seekers’ statements. The role of fathers, mothers and siblings is crucial and there is evidence of a very tight family-based network of contacts and participants in the pattern of narration and activity. Family and close kinship ties are both the likely butt of violence and persecution and the unit through which help is provided and news conveyed. Keywords: Asylum-SeekersNarratives of Ill-BeingZanzibar Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid Parkin David Parkin is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls college

Criminology · Ethnology · Kinship · Narrative · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Tanzania · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law

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