Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence

This multisited project, the first of its kind, exposes the links between US military violence abroad and police brutality at home through a profound exploration of Somali refugee lives. Black Muslim Refugee traces the globe-spanning journeys of these refugees, from civil war-era Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their eventual arrival in San Diego, and Maxamed Abumaye analyzes their experiences through the dual lenses of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. He situates their displacement within the larger context of East Africa's colonial history, as well as the policy consequences of the American-backed war on terror and war on drugs. Throughout, Abumaye's centering of Somali subjectivity underlines this community's critical and creative capacity to defy the mechanisms that seek to "manage" and ultimately control them.

Author: Maxamed Abumaye
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/03/2025
Series: Critical Refugee Studies
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780520356320