Nomadic expansion, cosmopolitan sensibilities, and new imperial frontiers -- Nomadic and diasporic life under empire -- Development, nationalism, and new topographies of power -- The creation of homeland and the domestication of the nation-state -- The criminalization of Somali …
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is contested alongside ideas …
Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities. In conversations with…
