ATUHUMUZE Faith

PhD Topic

Borderline Indigineity : Intergenerational Solidarity, Shifting Identities and Negotiating Belonging among the Banyarwanda in Uganda

Contents

My project is centered on the intersecting histories of belonging and contradictions of assimilation of the Banyarwanda in Uganda through a study of their longstanding (often turbulent) history of migration to date. Using a case of long term and recent refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement, I examine the dynamics of ascription and self-identification within and outside the three confines of family, ethnic group and local community. My argument is that interactions within these three spaces foster negotiation of new forms of social identity.