Remaking Self and Community: Historiography of Gender Migration in Post colonial Sudan 1950- 60s.

This paper focuses on theorizing oral narrative of migrant women in paper argues that rural migrant women in Greater Khartoum that faces an urban/state discourse that confines and restricts them within the boundaries of the label "displaced". Yet the "displaced" women have their own discourse regarding their own situations and identities as "displaced". I will draw upon Foucault's approach to discourse as a site where meanings are contested and power relations are determined is useful in analyzing and understanding the "displaced" women's discourse as a discourse in interaction with state discourse on "displacement". ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]