Cargando…

Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda

This paper explores how Burundian adolescents in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda, experience umwidegemvyo, 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 resea...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ruzibiza, Yvette, Berckmoes, Lidewyde, Neema, Stella, Reis, Ria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33645469
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2021.1889750
_version_ 1783672802374582272
author Ruzibiza, Yvette
Berckmoes, Lidewyde
Neema, Stella
Reis, Ria
author_facet Ruzibiza, Yvette
Berckmoes, Lidewyde
Neema, Stella
Reis, Ria
author_sort Ruzibiza, Yvette
collection PubMed
description This paper explores how Burundian adolescents in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda, experience umwidegemvyo, 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 kutitabwaho n’ababyeyi, loosely translated as “parental neglect”, implying a lack of parental involvement, care and provisioning.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8009026
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Taylor & Francis
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-80090262021-04-06 Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda Ruzibiza, Yvette Berckmoes, Lidewyde Neema, Stella Reis, Ria Sex Reprod Health Matters Research Article This paper explores how Burundian adolescents in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda, experience umwidegemvyo, 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 kutitabwaho n’ababyeyi, loosely translated as “parental neglect”, implying a lack of parental involvement, care and provisioning. Taylor & Francis 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8009026/ /pubmed/33645469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2021.1889750 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Ruzibiza, Yvette
Berckmoes, Lidewyde
Neema, Stella
Reis, Ria
Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title_full Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title_fullStr Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title_short Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
title_sort lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among burundian adolescents living in the nakivale refugee settlement, uganda
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33645469
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2021.1889750
work_keys_str_mv AT ruzibizayvette lostinfreedomambivalenceonsexualfreedomamongburundianadolescentslivinginthenakivalerefugeesettlementuganda
AT berckmoeslidewyde lostinfreedomambivalenceonsexualfreedomamongburundianadolescentslivinginthenakivalerefugeesettlementuganda
AT neemastella lostinfreedomambivalenceonsexualfreedomamongburundianadolescentslivinginthenakivalerefugeesettlementuganda
AT reisria lostinfreedomambivalenceonsexualfreedomamongburundianadolescentslivinginthenakivalerefugeesettlementuganda