All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Asylum Narratives and the Reconstruction of Collective Memory: The secondary migration of Somali Bantu to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
| The United States has initiated the resettlement of 13,000 Somali Bantu in the largest mass relocation of African refugees approved by the U.S Department of State. The persecuted minority ethnic group from Somalia was purposefully resettled with government assistance by organizations in regions of the United States with no significant Somali population. In 2005, hundreds of Somali Bantu began migrating to Columbus, Ohio, which has the second largest Somali-American population. As the movement of the Somali Bantu to Columbus continues to increase, their secondary migration from their designated cities has brought to light issues regarding asylum and refugee resettlement. This paper will examine the causes of this secondary migration and it’s relation to the asylum narratives and oral histories documented by American and Western observers and ethnographers in comparison to the collective memories and oral histories of Somali Bantu families that have chosen to resettle in Columbus. This paper also explores the influence of Western ethnographic research upon the Somali population in Columbus and their collective memories and narratives associated with the Somali Bantu.
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