عنوان

Two Paths Forward: An Ethnographic Study of Somali Bantu Refugees Living In A Northeastern City Public Housing Community

شماره

TL49067

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Two Paths Forward: An Ethnographic Study of Somali Bantu Refugees Living In A Northeastern City Public Housing Community

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ervin Dyer

نام ساير پديدآوران

Hashimoto, Akiko; Duck, Waverly

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Pittsburgh

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

221

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-41773-9

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Pittsburgh

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

In 1991, civil war struck the Northeastern African nation of Somalia. In the nation's collapse, thousands of Somali Bantu were displaced from southern Somalia. An estimated 14,000 were eventually relocated to the United States, making them the largest refugee group ever resettled in the United States. When they arrived, the Somali Bantu, one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in Somalia, became a rural people thrust into a post-industrial global American society. They are one of the most culturally dissimilar groups to come to the U.S.: they arrived with very little formal education, a language barrier; are Muslims in a predominantly Christian space; and are agrarians placed amid an urban social mosaic. There are about 50 Somali Bantu families living in this Northeastern city and socioeconomic factors have pushed one-third of these families into an isolated, impoverished and nearly all-Black American public housing project. This ethnographic study is focused on 13 Somali Bantu male heads of household who live in this community. I ask two primary research questions: How do Somali Bantu men, who live in an impoverished, segregated public housing community, access and maintain employment? And, despite challenges of race and class, what resources do they deploy to assimilate toward the larger society? Over a three-year period, I used informal and structured interviews, more than 700 hours of participant and non-obtrusive observation, and census research to investigate how Somali Bantu male heads of household are "survivors" who build beneficial social networks with middle-income white volunteers from faith-based and refugee support groups and that they also rely upon a set of friendly neighbors to settle into the public housing space.

موضوع مستند نشده

African Studies; Sociology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Africana studies;Class;Immigration;Race;Refugees;Urban ethnography

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lai, Huang-Wen

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hashimoto, Akiko; Duck, Waverly

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Pittsburgh

شماره بازیابی

1846986000; 10298758

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y