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Title Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3158740
Date 2021
Author(s) Ruzibiza, Y.; Berckmoes, L.H.; Neema, S.; Reis, R.
Abstract This paper explores how Burundian adolescents in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda, experience <em>umwidegemvyo</em>, loosely translated as 'freedom', with regard to their sexuality. We draw on ethnographic research conducted between August and November 2017 with adolescents aged 13'19 years. Our research included in-depth individual interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation. We present a context-sensitive appreciation of 'freedom' and its social implications for adolescents' sexual and love relationships. We show how adolescents attribute their sexual experiences and practices, including experimental sex, stress-relief sex and transactional sex, to the freedom experienced in the refugee context. Yet they also view this freedom with ambivalence: while some degree of freedom is desirable, too much is referred to in terms of <em>kutitabwaho n'ababyeyi</em>, loosely translated as 'parental neglect', implying a lack of parental involvement, care and provisioning. - ASC ' Publicaties niet-programma gebonden
Subject(s) Burundi; Uganda; sexuality; refugees; adolescents
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.1080/26410397.2021.1889750; lucris-id:366800066
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2022-12-19;08:51:30