Narrative Structures Constructed Around
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: A comparative qualitative study was conducted on Identity, Culture and Conflict in refugee (Oruchinga Valley Western Uganda) and returnee communities (Gulu, Northern Uganda) in 2009/10. This was an in- depth investigation into the ?returning home process? using personal narratives of respondents to scan the socio-economic conditions of refugees and returnees and analyse their struggle with issues of identity reconstruction within the transitory post conflict period. The study was aimed at comparing the cross-border refugee and internally displaced returnees? identity perspectives. It was to confirm whether the socio-economic measures taken to settle returnees are adequate and inducing peace or inadequate and tipping power relations in the community and increasing the risk of re-kindling hostilities. The study therefore traced the social implications of ?returning home? and the patterns of adaptation, re-integration and rejection in the host community. Most interesting is the study?s linguistic analysis of the refugees and returnees conflict narrative structures using Reissman?s analysis of their discourse system.
Author: Edith Natukunda Togboa
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W20276343