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Paper short abstract:

I will bring the ethnographic narratives of the marginalised 'African' communities in India

Paper long abstract:

Somalia is witnessing its worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). According to the Human Rights Law Network Report (2007), 400000 Somali refugees have fled from their homeland to avoid violence and instability. A massive displacement, exodus and forced migration has been taking place from Somalia rendering migrants homeless, stateless, and into a crisis of asylum-seekers and refugees in India and South Asia. It is on this context that this paper, first, focusses on the lived experiences, oral narratives, and family histories of the Somali community living in India to map. Second, highlights the development issue relating to India's non-signatory status to the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951). Third, this paper aims to contribute to the development of visual methodology as an important tool for the study of ‘crisis’ experienced by communities with a traumatic past. In its methodology to study crisis, it analyses the involvement of various agencies, institutions (formal- informal), and humanitarian groups contributing to the settlement of Somali migrants. This paper argues that visual ethnography can be a powerful tool for the study of the conflict. This papers also outlines the circumstances under which Somali’s migrates and maps it through intersectionality of race, class, gender, and religion.