Tabula Rasa? Conceptions of Microfinance in Juba, Sudan

Tabula Rasa? Conceptions of Microfinance in Juba, Sudan

2009

Northern Africa

Sudan

This proposal studies microfinance in the post-conflict context. It involves fieldwork including interviews and participant observation with microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Juba, the newly established capital of semi-autonomous South Sudan. This is a timely project about a pressing problem: the lack of well-implemented solutions for repatriating refugees' access financial services. The pressing financial and political conditions especially relating to extreme inflation, mass in-migration, and peace between previously warring factions make this research site important for timely knowledge production about the issue. This project will ask participants how they make sense of microcredit.

Crystal Murphy Morgan

Crystal Murphy Morgan is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design. She has a BA in Spanish and Anthropology from Vanguard University, and a master?s degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Irvine. She worked for a community-based organization in Lira, Uganda and is a research affiliate for the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.