Somali Studies in Canada: Resilience and Resistance

02/07/2022

To watch the 2021 event video visit our website at:

Carleton University

08/30/2021

Conference registration is now open at:

It is a panel discussion followed by Q & A at the end of each presentation.

05/17/2021

Somali Studies in Canada Colloquium deadline extended to August 16, 2021. See the link-

03/01/2021

Call for Abstracts for Somali Studies In Canada - 2021- see the link-

02/18/2021

We are stronger together

04/05/2020

Here is a link to the Somali-Studies in Canada website.https://carleton.ca/ssic/

09/24/2019

Here is our third co-organizer of the Somali Studies Colloquium, Mohamed Duale PhD Candidate in the Graduate Program in Education – Language, Culture and Teaching at the Faculty of Education, York University.

Mohamed Duale is a PhD Candidate in Education at York University. His doctoral research focuses on Somali refugee youth in the Dadaab Refugee Camps of northeastern Kenya. A Graduate Research Fellow at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York, Mohamed is also a Course Director with the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project and a Researcher with the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN). He is an interdisciplinary forced migration and diaspora studies researcher concentrating on protracted displacement, education in emergencies and fragile contexts in the Horn of Africa, and the Somali diaspora in the West. He has a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Political Science from York University and a Bachelor of Education from OISE, University of Toronto.

09/24/2019

We would like to introduce you to one of the Somali Studies Colloquium organizers, Dr. Nimo Bokore, Faculty of Social Work & Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative.

Dr. Bokore is Assistant Professor at the School of Social work at Carleton University. For over a decade Nimo Bokore’s research focused on refugee resettlement in Canada. Here the latest work as a co-investigator includes doing research project known as “Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)’ in four countries Tanzania, Kenya, Jordan, and Lebanon. She is also one of the creators of Somai-Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.
As resettled refugees from Africa, Dr. Bokore brings a rich perspective and profound approach to her work. Her research projects on Somali-Canadians include:

• How Canadian-Somali women conceptualize war trauma, forced migration, and how these circumstances influence their later resettlement process.
• Exploring The Unique Experiences, Opportunities, and Challenges In Accessing Postsecondary Education for Somali-Canadian Youth in Ontario.

Nimo completed her PhD with the School of Social Work at York University and currently teaches with the School of Social Work at Carleton University.

09/24/2019

We take great place in inviting you to the 2019 Annual colloquium. This is the Somali Studies in Canada's most exciting event of the year as we bring forth a new theme to discuss with 10 amazing Panelists. This year our colloquium committee have worked very hard to to ensure a varied program that will focus on the thematic priorities that emerged from the round-table discussions at the first Somali Studies in Canada Colloquium in 2017. This second conference is designed to play a key role in facilitating dialogue and partnerships among the Somali Studies academic community at local, regional, and national levels. We are interested in topics addressing issues of identity for Somalis in Canada such as identity conflict, historical trauma, the influence of less-studied periods of Somali history, cultural resurgence and practices, systemic barriers including access to higher education, economy and labor market integration, the promotion of well-being and social justice.

We are looking forward to having you all attend October 19!

Carleton University's Somali Studies in Canada is happy to announce its second Colloquium, taking place on October 19, 2019.