This is about the sudanese refugees sending money home. Shady, drawing on fieldwork conducted in both US and Ethiopia, investigated t he role of rtemittance, which is money sent by emigrants to family and friends in the home country - in creating connections between urban and rural places, and nations. Shandy finds that remittances are not merely a transfer of wealth between relatives Haves and Nots. Shandy focuses on the nuer refugees from Sudan.
Nuer are famous people in Anthropology. These people were included in books written by Evans- Pritchard. Nuer society has suffered devastating shifts in decades since Evans_Pritchard conducted his field work. This conflict in the Sudan frequently is attributed to social distinctions based on geography. Religion is also a factor in the conflict.
The population of the Sudan is estimated at fourty million. While it is difficult to develop reliable estimates for war induced displacements and deaths. It was calculated that two million people were were killed by North- South war and another 4 million displaced in Sudan. While some do manage to return home to visit the families left behind in most cases responding to the needs of family in Africa in values sendind money home.
With an understanding of who is sending money and how ,we can examine the impact of these funds on lives of Sudanese recipients in Ethiopia.These remittances do not just sustain people , they broker the possibilities for dramatic social change in the form of reconfigured residential patterns, local economies and power structures. The transformation of African societies and ways to access power within them has dominated African studies literatures since the mid 1960's. Within the chaotic social order, access to a remitting sponsor abroad has emerged as a marker of status and a promise of human society.
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