Somali Refugees Show How Conflict, Gender, Environmental Scarcity Become Entwined

Aug 25, 2014 | New Security Beat
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Under international law, someone who flees their country because of conflict or persecution is a refugee, but someone who flees because of inability to meet their basic household needs is not. In the case of Somalia, it is increasingly difficult to make any meaningful distinction between the two.

Over the past two years, colleagues and I have been working with Somalis living in Canada to document how environmental conditions shaped their decisions to leave their home country.