Fighting for security in insecure places

Accepted Paper

Aud Talle (University of Oslo)

Paper short abstract

The civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s produced a large number of refugees. In their exile condition in Europe and North America Somali women as circumcised women negotiate problems of alienation and identity loss. This paper discusses displacement and emplacement processes with particular reference to risk, security and protection.

Paper long abstract

The civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s produced a Somali diaspora

of unseen dimensions. Men, women and children in hundreds of thousand fled

the country and sought refugee in new lands. In their exile condition

Somali women as circumcised women negotiate problems of alienation and

identity loss. This paper discusses displacement and emplacement processes

with particular reference to risk, security and protection.

Panel W016
'Oppression' and 'security': the moral ambiguities of protection in an increasingly interconnected world
Session 1

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