@article{312874,
      recid = {312874},
      author = {Bixler, Mark,},
      title = {The lost boys of Sudan : an American story of the refugee  experience /},
      publisher = {University of Georgia Press,},
      address = {Athens :},
      pages = {xvi, 261 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees  from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just  some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys,"  who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their  families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged  their home country of Sudan since 1983. [This book] focuses  on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical  story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys were  found across America. It is a story of the countless  challenges of "making it" in a strange new place after  years on the run in Sudan or in refugee camps in Kenya and  Ethiopia.... As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys'  daily lives, we also get to know the social services  professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community  leaders, and others who guided them - with occasional  detours - toward self-sufficiency. Along the way, [the  author] looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee  policy, the politics of international aid, the history of  Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its  government. -Dust jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/312874},
}