The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away

by Doug Rutledge and Abdi Roble

Book Overview

The heartbreaking and hopeful story of Somali immigrants in America

Since 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816654573
• ISBN13: 9780816654574
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.9" x 9.9"