Marriage and belonging among South Sudanese Acholi refugees in New Zealand

This article describes refugee-background South Sudanese Acholi attempts to (re)produce customary marriages in New Zealand. The cross-cutting debt obligations and transactions involved these need the involvement of transnational social networks. Beyond networks, however, are important ethnic identification, with generating maintaining feelings “belonging.” Such largely absent from most refugees’ wider resettlement experiences. Analysis transformations within resettlement-based marriage customs demonstrates how individual collective belonging is developed negotiated amid tensions resettlement, differences opinion over highlighting contested nature belonging.