Catherine Besteman is Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Cape Town and Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery.

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List of Terms and Abbreviations  ix

Timeline of Events  xi

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction  1

Part I. Refugees

1. Becoming Refugees  35

2. The Humanitarian Condition  57

3. Becoming Somali Bantus  77

Part II. Lewiston

Introduction  103

4. We Have Responded Valiantly  115

5. Strangers in Our Midst  139

6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands  169

Part III. Refuge

Introduction  205

7. Making Refuge  215

8. These Are Our Kids  243

Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be  277

Notes  291

References  313

Index  327

Catherine Besteman is Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Cape Town and Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery.