Add to ORKGIn Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Becoming refugees -- The humanitarian condition -- Becoming Somali Bantus -- We have responded valiantly -- Strangers in our midst -- Helpers in the neoliberal borderlands -- Making refuge -- These are our kids.In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course o...
In 1991, civil war struck the Northeastern African nation of Somalia. In the nation’s collapse, thou...
This article depicts the nature of the resettlement, acculturation, and reception of the Somali refu...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the social networks and lived experi...
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against ...
Catherine Besteman conduced fieldwork in the late 1980’s in the small village of Banta in southern S...
Lewiston, a mill town of about thirty-six thousand people, is the second-largest city in Maine. It i...
As Somali women refugees struggle to understand the culture of and learn to successfully participate...
Research among urban self-settled refugees from the Great Lakes region in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ...
The present paper examines the experience of and assesses the educational and literacy needs of a gr...
Contains fulltext : 64307-OA.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)C.M.A. Horst ...
For decades Somalia has been affected by catastrophic events that have left millions of its people d...
This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war...
Somali refugee resettlement in the United States is examined through narratives and case studies fro...
In 1991, a violent civil war erupted in Somalia, following the overthrow of the military regime of S...
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the a...
In 1991, civil war struck the Northeastern African nation of Somalia. In the nation’s collapse, thou...
This article depicts the nature of the resettlement, acculturation, and reception of the Somali refu...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the social networks and lived experi...
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against ...
Catherine Besteman conduced fieldwork in the late 1980’s in the small village of Banta in southern S...
Lewiston, a mill town of about thirty-six thousand people, is the second-largest city in Maine. It i...
As Somali women refugees struggle to understand the culture of and learn to successfully participate...
Research among urban self-settled refugees from the Great Lakes region in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ...
The present paper examines the experience of and assesses the educational and literacy needs of a gr...
Contains fulltext : 64307-OA.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)C.M.A. Horst ...
For decades Somalia has been affected by catastrophic events that have left millions of its people d...
This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war...
Somali refugee resettlement in the United States is examined through narratives and case studies fro...
In 1991, a violent civil war erupted in Somalia, following the overthrow of the military regime of S...
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the a...
In 1991, civil war struck the Northeastern African nation of Somalia. In the nation’s collapse, thou...
This article depicts the nature of the resettlement, acculturation, and reception of the Somali refu...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the social networks and lived experi...