Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by UP Author "Abdi, Cawo Mohamed"

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Disclaimed or reclaimed? Muslim refugee youth and belonging in the age of hyperbolisation

Abdi, Cawo Mohamed (Routledge, 2015-11)

Using data derived chiefly from the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this paper explores the challenges confronting its youth. The findings are the result of an ongoing ethnographic engagement with this community ...
Somali American female refugees discuss their attitudes toward homosexuality and the gay and lesbian community

Hunt, Shanda L.; Connor, Jennifer J.; Ciesinski, Amanda; Abdi, Cawo Mohamed; Robinson, Beatrice 'Bean' E. (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in the USA – most arriving as refugees from the civil war in Somalia. As Somali Americans adjust to life in the USA, they are likely to undergo shifts in their belief ...
Threatened identities and gendered opportunities : Somali migration to America

Abdi, Cawo Mohamed (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Recent literature pays close attention to the ways in which gender mediates the migration experience. In addition to showing that gender matters in the migration process, this scholarship highlights how institutions in ...

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