This dissertation is the first comprehensive history of Somali dress, focusing on how the aesthetics (forms and meanings) of dress have changed as Somalis have interacted with people from other cultures and migrated from the Horn of Africa to Minneapolis-St. Paul, the largest So…
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The research reported in this dissertation identifies what happens to nomads when they lose their animals and what can be done by the community, government, and non-governmental organizations to enable the ex-nomads to attain livelihood self-sufficiency. It has addressed these c…
The purpose of the study is to understand the relationship of a Somali immigrant and refugee group and the phenomena of disability. Through the use of qualitative research, I seek to understand the social phenomena from the participants' point of view in one urban Midwestern cit…
Somali refugees arriving in Canada in the early 1990s experienced various levels of exclusion as blacks, as Muslims, and as refugees, including immigration and settlement policies that continued to structure race and gender inequality in Canada. In addition to the disadvantage o…
This dissertation is a study of youth programs as structures of refuge for Somalis in San Diego, CA. Somali youth stand at the nexus of the notions of, on the one hand, "refugees" as traumatized and deserving of humanitarian aid, and on the other hand as "Somalis" feared to be v…
Female circumcision is a practice that globally has affected 130 million people. Two million females are circumcised yearly, amounting to 6,000 circumcised per day. Female circumcision is defined as the deliberate removal or injury to any part of the female genitalia without med…
