Lindsay Eppich’s scientific contributions

... Keen to avoid representations of refugee women as passive victims, research on the U.S.-based Sudanese diaspora has also demonstrated how experiences of migration and resettlement can be both oppressive and libratory. For example, Laura DeLuca has critically explored both the opportunities and challenges presented by neoliberal refugee policies that promote self-sufficiency and push young Sudanese women into menial care and catering work (DeLuca and Eppich 2007;DeLuca 2008). Parallel work has similarly explored the effects of employment and education on political subjectivity following resettlement, with arguments that diasporic women are subverting traditional forms of gendered control, opening up new spaces for political engagement, and forging new connections with women in the diaspora and at home in Sudan. ...

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“We want empowerment for our women”: Transnational Feminism, Neoliberal Citizenship, and the Gendering of Women’s Political Subjectivity in Postconflict South Sudan