A Note to My Readers >>>>> In the days and weeks ahead, I am going to present the results of my reading and research this summer on the history and culture of key ethnic groups to which students of the Minneapolis Public Schools belong. The following account gives essentials facts pertinent to refugees from Somalia and the Somali diaspora, based on information in the indicated book by Ioan Lewis.
From Ioan Lewis, Understanding Somalia and Somaliland (London: Hurst and Company, 2008)
Somali Refugees and the Somali Diaspora
>>>>> Somali refugees estimated globally at approximately two million (2 million)
>>>>> Main countries of asylum have been first, those neighboring Somalia: Kenya, Ethiopia, and to a lesser extend Djibouti; Arab countries, especially Yemen, which some minority considered as the site of their ancestral homes and where they had had long trading and family links.
>>>>> Conditions in these refugee camps have been described as particularly harsh,refugees being subjected to in human treatment. Rape occurred regularly, and officials who were running the camps were often unscrupulous in their demands for sexual favors.
>>>>> Tendency in dispersal to coalesce in new locations around clan and ethnic groupings.
>>>>> Somali refugees have settled especially in the following international
locations >>>>>
North America: Canada and United States;
Europe: United Kingdom, Holland, Finland/other Scandinavian countries;
Middle East (West Asia): Egypt, Gulf States, Saudi Arabia;
Australia and
New Zealand.
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