This is a great article about the thousands of Somali refugees still flooding into Kenya this year in the already very overcrowded camps. The UNHCR is saying that there needs to be more space made available before these refugees can take a spot in the camps.
great article on the crisis and displacement in Somalia http://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?did=1922479811&sid=2&Fmt=6&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=PQD
another great article about how refugees from somali deal with life in kenyan camps http://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?did=1417636961&sid=4&Fmt=6&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=PQD
this one is ok, there's some good info in it..the women who wrote it is kinda explaining about a book she wrote about refugees in kenya http://links.jstor.org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdfplus/220664.pdf?acceptTC=true
Somalia is a country that is comprised of several large clans. Following the overthrow of dictator Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia descended into complete chaos and civil war. When the civil war broke out, the various clans competed for power.
The Bantu were very vulnerable for several reasons:
They did not belong to any of the dominant clans in Somalia, and therefore could not avail themselves of any clan protection during the fighting;
They lived and worked in the most productive agricultural regions of Somalia and had large amounts of food stored. As the clans fought each other, they often raided the Bantu villages for food and to gain control of these very productive regions.
The Bantu are of a different ethnicity and appearance than the dominant clan Somalis, and therefore were unable to “blend in” to any crowd. They were often the targets of violence, including beatings, rapes and murder. As the war worsened, the Bantu fled to neighboring countries by the thousands. Many of the refugees suffered horrendous atrocities along the way. Militias showed up at night, abducting men and raping women. Some children were forced into labor, others witnessed their parents getting killed. Many died of starvation or thirst along the way; others walked on foot for 17 days or more to cross a border.
Many ended up in one of several camps in Kenya. Ironically, many Somalis also ended up in those same camps because they were also fleeing the violence. Their co-existence in the camps often led to more violence and harassment of the Bantu. By 1994, approximately 10,000 Somali Bantu refugees were living in four refugee camps in Northern Kenya. At their peak in early 2000, these camps held more than 160,000 refugees.
Things didn't get much better once they arrived at the mushrooming Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Today, there are 100,000 Somali refugees in Kenya. At Dadaab, the Bantu found themselves at the bottom of the pecking order, forced into menial jobs like cleaning latrines.
http://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?index=3&did=2024117901&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1285726663&clientId=31810
ReplyDeleteThis is a great article about the thousands of Somali refugees still flooding into Kenya this year in the already very overcrowded camps. The UNHCR is saying that there needs to be more space made available before these refugees can take a spot in the camps.
http://mutex.gmu.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?did=2060438941&sid=6&Fmt=3&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=PQD
ReplyDeleteAlso this would be a great I out of the SPICTEROW model. An article about the abuse of Somali refugees from Kenyan police.
I posted this before as a comment on another post but just making sure its not forgotten about.
great article on the crisis and displacement in Somalia
ReplyDeletehttp://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?did=1922479811&sid=2&Fmt=6&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=PQD
another great article about how refugees from somali deal with life in kenyan camps
http://proquest.umi.com.mutex.gmu.edu/pqdweb?did=1417636961&sid=4&Fmt=6&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=PQD
this one is ok, there's some good info in it..the women who wrote it is kinda explaining about a book she wrote about refugees in kenya
http://links.jstor.org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdfplus/220664.pdf?acceptTC=true
Somalia is a country that is comprised of several large clans. Following the overthrow of dictator Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia descended into complete chaos and civil war. When the civil war broke out, the various clans competed for power.
ReplyDeleteThe Bantu were very vulnerable for several reasons:
They did not belong to any of the dominant clans in Somalia, and therefore could not avail themselves of any clan protection during the fighting;
They lived and worked in the most productive agricultural regions of Somalia and had large amounts of food stored. As the clans fought each other, they often raided the Bantu villages for food and to gain control of these very productive regions.
The Bantu are of a different ethnicity and appearance than the dominant clan Somalis, and therefore were unable to “blend in” to any crowd. They were often the targets of violence, including beatings, rapes and murder.
As the war worsened, the Bantu fled to neighboring countries by the thousands. Many of the refugees suffered horrendous atrocities along the way. Militias showed up at night, abducting men and raping women. Some children were forced into labor, others witnessed their parents getting killed. Many died of starvation or thirst along the way; others walked on foot for 17 days or more to cross a border.
Many ended up in one of several camps in Kenya. Ironically, many Somalis also ended up in those same camps because they were also fleeing the violence. Their co-existence in the camps often led to more violence and harassment of the Bantu. By 1994, approximately 10,000 Somali Bantu refugees were living in four refugee camps in Northern Kenya. At their peak in early 2000, these camps held more than 160,000 refugees.
Things didn't get much better once they arrived at the mushrooming Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Today, there are 100,000 Somali refugees in Kenya. At Dadaab, the Bantu found themselves at the bottom of the pecking order, forced into menial jobs like cleaning latrines.
http://www.lsga.org/Programs/Refugee/Som_Bantu.htm