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Transnational Nomads : How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Forced Migration
ISBN-10 1845451295
ISBN-13 9781845451295
Publisher Berghahn Books
Imprint Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 1st, 2006
Print length 252 Pages
Weight 470 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 23.80 x 1.90 cms
Ksh 18,100.00
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The daily pictures of refugee camps, mostly in Africa, tell how the refugees manage to survive under the abject conditions. This study of Somalis, in a camp in Kenya, offers some explanations. The author argues that it is wrong to look at the camps in isolation but that one has to consider historical, social and transnational dimensions.

There is a tendency to consider all refugees as ''vulnerable victims'': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions.

This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their ''nomadic'' heritage in order to cope with camp life; a heritage that includes a high degree of mobility and strong social networks that reach beyond the confines of the camp as far as the U.S. and Europe.


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