Cawo Abdi

Publications

• Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity. 2015. MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• "Threatened Identities and Gendered Opportunities: Somali Migration to America." 2014. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39(21):459-483.
• "Muslim-American Youth and Homeland Politics: Competing Narratives on the War on Terror.” 2011. Pp 273-289 in Looming Shadows: Migration and Integration at a Time of Upheaval. European and American Perspectives. Edited by Vedran Dzihic and Thomas Schmidinger. Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS.
• "Moving Beyond ‘Xenophobia’: Structural Violence, Conflict and Encounters with the ‘Other’ Africans," 2011. Development Southern Africa 28(5):691-704.
• "Convergence of Civil War and the Religious Right: Re-Imagining Somali Women," 2007. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33(1):183-207.
• ”Condemned to a Protracted Protracted Limbo? Refugees and Statelessness in the Age of Terrorism,” with Erika Busse. 2019. Pp. 294-304 in Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, 2nd Ed. Edited by Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn. UK: Routledge.
• "Refugees and Citizens on the Margins: Sufferings Recognized, Sufferings Denied.” 2017. Pp. 217-232 in Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life. Edited by Ronald E. Anderson. NY: Springer.
• "Disclaimed or Reclaimed? Muslim Refugee Youth and Belonging in the Age of Hyperbolisation." 2015. Journal of Intercultural Studies 36(5):564-578.
• “Public Education, School ‘Choice,’ and Somali Refugee Children.” 2019. Pp. 153-156 in Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics. Edited by Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay. MA: Harvard Education Press.
• “Arab Family Studies, Somalia: 1900-2014." 2018. Pp. 96-110 in Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews. Edited by Suad Joseph. NY: Syracuse University Press.
• "Somali American Female Refugees Discuss Their Attitudes toward Homosexuality and the Gay and Lesbian Community," with Shanda L. Hunt, Jennifer J. Connor , Amanda Ciesinski, and Beatrice 'Bean' E. Robinson. 2017. Culture, Health and Sexuality 20(5):591-605.

Activities

Awards

• Fulbright Research Fellowship to South Africa, 2012 - 2013

Courses Taught

• Soc 1001 - Introduction to Sociology
• Soc 3681 - Gender and Family in the Islamic World
• Soc 3505 - Transnational Migration
• Soc 8390 - Topics: Global Migrations
• Soc 8390 - Topics: Comparing Migrations
• Soc 1011V : Honors: Introduction to Sociology