The book investigates what the refugee resettlement system feels like to those who have gone through the resettlement process. I tracked the experiences of people I knew in the 1980s in Somalia, starting with their displacement during the war, touching on their two decades in refugee camps in Ke..
Catherine Besteman
Catherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. A past President of APLA and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, her books include Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016), Transforming Cape Town (2008), Unraveling Somalia (1999), and, with Hugh Gusterson, the edited volumes The Insecure American (2009) and Why America’s Top Pundits are Wrong (2005).