Marriage and belonging among South Sudanese Acholi refugees in New Zealand

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ID5711071
AuthorsRyan Joseph O’byrne (0000-0003-4518-1127, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume20
Issue3
Pages444-458
Publication date2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1556-2948 • E-ISSN: 1556-2956
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15562948.2021.1933295
OpenAlexW3174716763
LanguageEN
References cited26

This article describes refugee-background South Sudanese Acholi attempts to (re)produce customary marriages in New Zealand. The cross-cutting debt obligations and transactions involved in these marriages need the involvement of transnational social networks. Beyond these networks, however, customary marriages are important to ethnic identification, with the transactions involved generating and maintaining feelings of “belonging.” Such feelings are largely absent from most refugees’ wider resettlement experiences. Analysis of transformations within resettlement-based marriage customs demonstrates how individual and collective belonging is developed and negotiated amid the tensions of resettlement, with differences of opinion over these transformations involved highlighting the contested nature of belonging

Criminology · Ethnic group · Feeling · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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