title: Homesickness, Violence and Prostitution: Amharic Literature on Labour Migration to the Gulf States
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Steblin-Kamenskiy, Nikolay I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-04T15:58:07Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-04T15:58:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Steblin-Kamenskiy N. I. Homesickness, Violence and Prostitution: Amharic Literature on Labour Migration to the Gulf States. Vestnik SPbSU. Asian and African Studies, 2017, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 58–69.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2017.106
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6664
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Thousands of people are leaving Ethiopia monthly to be employed in the Gulf states. This involvement
  of Ethiopians in labor migration shapes the modern culture of the country. There are hundreds
  of songs, poems and movies based on the concept of siddet — an Amharic term which can be roughly
  translated as migration or exile. In this paper the way in which labor migration is presented in Amharic
  fiction is analysed. Two Amharic novels taken for the research (“Thorny gold” by Saada Muhammed
  and “Alemnesh, a refugee in the Middle East” by Melake Teezazu) appear to reproduce the negative
  discourse on migration. Thus, stories about successful migration are absent making suffering of compatriots
  the major topic of the narration. I argue that the concept of siddet manages to create a new
  transnational Ethiopian identity, based on the idea of common national tragedy. Although the culture
  of exile is mostly created by the diaspora, it is in demand among those how stay behind. Refs 17.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 9; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: labour migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discourse on migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ethiopia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fiction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Homesickness, Violence and Prostitution: Amharic Literature on Labour Migration to the Gulf States
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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