Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

by Catherine Besteman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360446
• ISBN13: 9780822360445
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"