Improvised Adolescence : Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America /

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Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grady, Sandra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Teenage refugees.
Somalis > Social life and customs.
Somali American teenagers.
Refugees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Somaliens > États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes.
Bantous > Acculturation > États-Unis.
Refugies > Somalie.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Somalis > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Somalis > United States > Social life and customs.
Bantu-speaking peoples > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Refugees > Somalia.
Teenage refugees > United States.
United States.
Somalia.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (173 pages).
ISBN:9780299303235

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