The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

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The Ideal Refugees Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East miriam cooke, Suad Joseph, and Simona Sharoni, Series Editors Other titles in Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, eds. Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, ed. Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen Susanne Dahlgren Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East Akram Fouad Khater Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation Lisa Taraki, ed. Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967 Samira Aghacy “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo Elyse Semerdjian Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen Marina de Regt Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran Negar Mottahedeh Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement Farzaneh Milani The Ideal Refugees Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh syracuse university press Copyright © 2014 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2014 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 All photographs are the author’s own, unless otherwise specified. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3326-6 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5236-6 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available on request from publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America This book is dedicated with love to Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Bissan-Maria Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and to my grandparents, Eric and Margery Fiddian. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies at Lady Margaret Hall. Between 2010 and 2012, Elena was the Director of the International Summer School in Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. ...