The fraudulent family: humanitarianism, security, and kinship in refugee resettlement from Kenya

Based on fieldwork with Somali and Congolese refugees, and with United Nations, NGO (non-governmental organization) and government officials in Nairobi, Kenya (22 months) and Columbus, Ohio (5 months), the dissertation is an ethnography of refugee resettlement processes. Moving between refugee communities and the patchwork of bureaucratic institutions that govern and aid them, the dissertation takes as its focal point discourses of fraud and anti-fraud practices that illuminate contemporary struggles over rights to mobility. More centrally, I argue that “the family”—as symbol, organizing principle, and network of moral obligations—lies at the heart of these contestations. In 2008, over 80% of refugees—largely located in Kenya—“failed” DNA tests performed by the US government in an initiative designed to assess fraud in its Refugee Family Reunification Program. Subsequently, DNA testing became a permanent component of the program. While the US government has narrowed the definition of “family,” making it testable and therefore less vulnerable to so-called fraud, refugees themselves continue to rely on more expansive networks of social care. Such networks emerge from both long-standing practices, but also more recent forces of political violence and displacement in postcolonial Africa. Refugees’ obligations to assist members of these social networks, thus, conflict with humanitarian programs’ imperatives to aid and resettle the refugees deemed most worthy—a category tied up in ideas about the nuclear, biological family. Refugee resettlement is structured by competing claims: protecting refugees on one hand, and protecting national security and Euro-American humanitarian ideals on the other. “The family” constitutes a central locus of these dual claims, treated both as an object of special care and of intense scrutiny. Taking fraud, including “family composition fraud,” as a crucial category, I move critical approaches to kinship to the center of the study of humanitarianism and securitization, while charting the ways in which global refugee resettlement policies shape the borders of transnational communities. In doing so, I argue that contemporary humanitarian policies prioritize not only particular kinds of identities, but also particular kinds of social relations

Limiar anaeróbio em natação: comparação entre diferentes protocolos

The aims of this study were: 1- to compare different blood lactate based protocols and 2 - to analyze the validity of minimum blood glucose value for anaerobic threshold assessment during swimming. Ten male trained swimmers (19.4 ± 1.6 years) underwent four to five evaluations separated by 48 - 72 h in a 25 m pool. Maximal lactate steady-state speed (MLSS-S) was determined from blood lactate response to a 2000 m swimming bout at constant speed, while lactate threshold (LTS) and the lowest glucose (; 0.05) from LTS (1.27 ± 0.10 m.s-1) orOs objetivos do presente estudo foram comparar diferentes protocolos lactacidêmicos e analisar a validade do menor valor glicêmico para a determinação do limiar anaeróbio em natação. Dez nadadores treinados (19,4 ± 1,6 anos) participaram de quatro a cinco avaliações separadas por 48 ou 72 h em piscina de 25 m. A velocidade de máximo estado estável de lactato (VMEE) foi determinada a partir da resposta lactacidêmica a esforços de 2000 m em intensidade constante, enquanto as velocidades de limiar de lactato (VLL) e menor glicemia (V; 0,05) de VLL (1,27 ± 0,10 m.s-1) e

La poética musical de Canciones, de Federico García Lorca

This paper is an analysis, from a musical-literary point of view, of Canciones (Málaga, 1927), a book by Lorca which has been largely overlooked by the critics. Our starting point is a general description that will allow us to place the book within the context of both the European Avantgarde movement and the Generation of ’27. The interartistic nature of this cultural period and the author’s musical vocation provide the initial motivation that explains our musical-literary approach. Starting with a close reading of the book, and using the methodology designed by Brown (1987) and Scher (1970), we will focus on the intrinsic musicality of the text, which is present in both the titles and most external paratexts, and in the creative core of the poems.Este trabajo analiza desde el comparatismo músico-literario Canciones (Málaga, 1927), uno de los libros lorquianos menos atendidos por la crítica. El estudio se inicia con una panorámica de conjunto que permite ubicar la obra en el contexto de creación de la Vanguardia europea y la Generación del 27. El impulso interartístico de la época unido a la vocación musical del autor son solo los acicates externos que justifican el análisis músico-literario propuesto. Partiendo de la lectura atenta de los textos y con ayuda de la metodología de Brown (1987) y Scher (1970), se quiere poner de relieve la musicalidad intrínseca del libro, que va de los títulos y paratextos más externos a la médula composicional de los poemas

The Symbolist Movement- a critical appraisal

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