Improvised Adolescence
Subtitle: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America
By: Sandra Grady
Series: Folklore studies in a multicultural world
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780299303242; 9780299303235
Subjects: Somalis; Cultural assimilation; Social life and customs; Bantu-speaking peoples; Somali American teenagers; Refugees; Teenage refugees
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.