particular, refugee services. This organization relocates refugees, the ones I worked with are

from Sudan, Africa. A 20 year civil war has been raging in Sudan leaving families displaced and

relocated. The war is between the Northern Sudanese (mostly Arab Muslims-also in control of

the government) and the Southern Sudanese (mostly indigenous people of Nuer and Dinka

'tribes'). The Southern Sudanese do not recognize the government except when forced to.

White missionaries come to Southern Sudan to aid these people while converting them to

Christianity (and furthering their God's/or religion's own agenda). Bior (a boy I work with) told

me, "we like the white people in Sudan, they come to help us build things." The Southern

Sudanese have been cosntantly attacked and often fled to neighboring Kenya. Even in Kenya

refugee camps the Southern Sudanese have been attacked by their Arab enemies.

The Northern Sudanese are largely Arab Muslims who control the government. The

government is seen as artificial to the indigenous population. The government attempts to

collect taxes and impose laws on those in Southern Sudan. Resista

United States. The United States has the resources (extracted from the rest of the world) to

with many of the theorist's we have read. Social change is coming from the altering of their

would most closely follow their goals. The organization gives me sheets to monitor my

paperwork, qualifications and an understanding of the system (knowledge as capital).

photographic equipment, and they want jobs for cars. Their social structure has been realigned

and tradition, other groups are in the process marginalized.

taken over the course of my visits. It is tough to say how this furthers the goals of Lutheran

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