Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees In America (Folklore Studies In A Multicultural World)

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.

• | Author: Sandra Grady
• | Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 174 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0299303241
• | ISBN-13: 9780299303242