Somalia

If you have additional information on Somali refugees--about where they came from or their situation here now--please tell me! MARC@denrescue.org

In 2012, 117 refugees from Somalia were resettled in Colorado and 4,914 in the US as a whole.

Background information on Somali Refugees:

A good, long list of resources and publications on refugees from Somalia: http://www.brycs.org/clearinghouse/Positive-Youth-Development-and-Somali-Youth.cfm

UNHCR Official Somalia refugee profile: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=49e483ad6&submit=GO

The Somali Bantu - A basic introduction to the people, history, and cultures of the Somali Bantu resettled from refugee camps in Somalia (PDF, 2003, CAL)

Muslim Refugees - A basic introduction to the worldview of Muslim peoples and special considerations when working with Muslim refugees (PDF, 2003, CAL)

Somali and Arabic Language Resources:

Decent Somali site: http://www.linguistics.universityofqaran.com/gpage2.html

Some Somali stuff: http://www.digitaldialects.com/Somali.htm

Somali basics: http://learn101.org/somali.php

Decent Arabic site: http://www.madinaharabic.com/

Arabic basics: http://www.searchtruth.com/arabic/lessons/unit1_writing.php

Animated Arabic alphabet learning: http://www.funwitharabic.com/

Lots of Arabic phrases: http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/