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Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offer 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 of autonomy and gender equality, challenged by affinities towards others with similar migration experiences, transformed because of geographical separation from family members, and leveraged by individuals for cultural capital. Challenging prevailing views in the field, Bjork argues that clan-informed practices influence everything from asylum decisions to managing money. The practices also become a pattern that structures important relationships via constant - and unwitting - effort.

Somalis --- Somali diaspora. --- Diaspora, Somali --- Human geography --- Somal --- Somali --- Somalians --- Somals --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs. --- Diaspora --- Migrations

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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate co-residence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman’s account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes.

Somali diaspora. --- Somalis --- Cultural assimilation --- Lewiston (Me.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Somal --- Somali --- Somalians --- Somals --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- Diaspora, Somali --- Human geography --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- Lewiston, Me. --- somali diaspora --- somalis --- cultural assimilation --- anthropology --- african studies

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Teenage refugees --- Refugees --- Somali American teenagers. --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Somalis --- Refugee teenagers --- Teenagers, Somali American --- Teenagers --- Bantus --- Ethnology --- Somal --- Somali --- Somalians --- Somals --- Cushites --- Cultural assimilation --- Social life and customs.

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Citizen and Pariah explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa by investigating Somali informal shopkeepers' experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country. Through a narrative account of their local experiences, the book sheds light on the legal and political predicaments they face.

Somalis --- Stores, Retail --- Economic conditions. --- Commercial buildings --- Retail trade --- Shopping centers --- Retail stores --- Shops --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- Somal --- Somali --- Somalians --- Somals

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"Khat, marijuana, peyote--are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly popular stimulant and the target of vehement anti-drug campaigns, she explores biocultural and socioeconomic contexts on local, national, and global levels. Gezon provides a multidisciplinary examination of the plant's direct physical and psychological effects, as well as indirect social and structural effects on income and labor productivity, identity, gendered relationships, global drug discourses, and food security. This sophisticated, multileveled analysis cuts through the traditional battle lines of the drug debate and is a model for understanding and evaluating psychotropic substances around the world"--

Khat --- Abyssian tea plant --- Arabian tea plant --- Catha edulis --- Kat --- Miraa --- Qat --- Sallaa --- Somali tea plant --- Catha --- Psychotropic plants --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects.