Translating Race across Time and Space: The Creation of Somali Bantu Ethnicity

Identities

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-302

  Besteman, Catherine ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

diaspora; humanitarianism; race; refugees; resettlement; Somali Bantu

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; DIASPORA; ETHNICITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; RACE; RACIAL IDENTITY; REFUGEE; RESETTLEMENT POLICY;

KENYA; SOMALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865264657     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.681862     Document Type: Review

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