Black Muslim Refugee : Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520356322
ISBN-13
9780520356320
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 2025
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
290 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.70 x 1.40 cms
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This multisited project, the first of its kind, exposes the links between US military violence abroad and police brutality at home through a profound exploration of Somali refugee lives. Black Muslim Refugee traces the globe-spanning journeys of these refugees, from civil war–era Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their eventual arrival in San Diego, and Maxamed Abumaye analyzes their experiences through the dual lenses of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. He situates their displacement within the larger context of East Africa's colonial history, as well as the policy consequences of the American-backed war on terror and war on drugs. Throughout, Abumaye's centering of Somali subjectivity underlines this community's critical and creative capacity to defy the mechanisms that seek to "manage" and ultimately control them.
This multisited project, the first of its kind, exposes the links between US military violence abroad and police brutality at home through a profound exploration of Somali refugee lives. Black Muslim Refugee traces the globe-spanning journeys of these refugees, from civil warera Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their eventual arrival in San Diego, and Maxamed Abumaye analyzes their experiences through the dual lenses of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. He situates their displacement within the larger context of East Africa''s colonial history, as well as the policy consequences of the American-backed war on terror and war on drugs. Throughout, Abumaye''s centering of Somali subjectivity underlines this community''s critical and creative capacity to defy the mechanisms that seek to "manage" and ultimately control them.
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