Transnational nomads : how Somalis cope with refugee life in the Dadaab camps of Kenya

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...

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Main Author: Horst, Cindy
Format: Printed Book
Published: Newyork Berghahn 2006
Subjects:
Kenya
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