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

This event is part of the Jackson School of International Studies and its African Studies Program Winter 2021 Lecture Series on Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds. Join us in conversation with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging. Art credit: "The Other Side" by Yeggy Michael.