Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence

For Somali refugees, San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood and the camp at Dadaab, Kenya are connected carceral spaces. Both are governed by militarized techniques and technologies of surveillance and militarism, and both demand counter-technologies through which refugees survive and even thrive.

Mohamed Abumaye is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Marcos.

Additional co-sponsor: UW Center for Human Rights