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30-11-2018 | Book Review

Sandra Grady: Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, 174pp, ISBN 978-0-299-30324-2

Auteur: Allison Hilmer

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 1/2019

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Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America, by Sandra Grady, details the study of one population of Somali Bantu refugees who have relocated to the American Midwest. For 16 months, Grady studied the teenagers of this group, “who had all moved to the United States just before puberty” (Grady 2015). Specifically, Grady studied how this migration disrupted the group’s traditional practice of initiation ritual, and how the group’s integration into the American public-school system has, in a way, transposed tradition. Grady explores how this transition into public school affected both the group’s identity formation and each individual teenager’s identity formation (Grady 2015). …

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Grady, S. (2015). Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Titel: Sandra Grady: Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, 174pp, ISBN 978-0-299-30324-2
Auteur: Allison Hilmer
Publicatiedatum: 30-11-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0966-7

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