Title: Improvised Adolescence
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.
Subjects: Somalis, Cultural assimilation, Social life and customs, Bantu-speaking peoples, Somali American teenagers, Refugees, Teenage refugees, African american youth, Refugees, africa, Refugees, united states
Places: United States, Somalia