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"Pearls in Motion" -- Prefazione al romanzo di Cristina Ali Farah, Little Mother (titolo originale: Madre piccola), Bloomington, Indiana University P…
2011
Somalialaistaustaiset nuoret nimistönkäyttäjinä Itä-Helsingissä
2011
Artikkelin tutkimuskohteena ovat Itä-Helsingissä asuvat somalialaistaustaiset nuoret. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan somalialaistaustaisten nuorten omassa asuinympäristössään käyttämää paikannimistöä sekä nimistöhaastattelujen tavoitteita ja tuloksia. Tutkimuksen aineistona on viiden iältään 12–17-vuotiaan somalialaistaustaisen haastattelut, jotka on tehty vuonna 2008. Haastattelut ovat olleet ryhmähaastatteluja, joissa nuoret keskustelevat omasta asuinympäristöstään. Tukiaineistona on käytetty sekä aikuisten somalialaistaustaisten että suomalaistaustaisten itähelsinkiläisten haastatteluja. Tutkimus liittyy kahteen Suomen Akatemian hankkeeseen: Nimimaiseman muutos Helsingin sosiolingvistisesti…
Conflict in Somalia: impact on child undernutrition
2017
Background: In Somalia, protracted conflict and persistent drought have caused population displacement and livelihood destruction. As a result, there is widespread child malnutrition. We aimed to determine the effects of conflict on wasting and stunting among children aged 6-59 months in Somalia 2007–2010.\ud \ud Methods: Data were from household nutritional surveys from 2007 to 2010, with 1,066 clusters covering 73,778 children, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project and remote sensing. We used Bayesian hierarchical spatial-temporal regression methods to examine the effects of conflict on wasting and stunting. A preliminary model included individual, household and envir…
Short notes on the legal pluralism(s) in Somaliland
2014
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Migrant rap in the periphery
2017
Abstract Focusing on a YouTube performance by an emergent Finnish Somali rapper and the audience responses it has generated, this paper looks at ways in which rap music engages with the issue of belonging. Drawing on recent theorizations of belonging as a multi-dimensional, contingent and fluid process, along with sociolinguistic work on globalization and superdiversity, Finnish hip hop culture and popular cultural practices in social media, the paper investigates how belonging is performatively and multi-semiotically interrogated in its online context. It shows how rap can serve as a significant site and channel for new voices in turbulent social settings characterized by rapid social chan…
Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6–59 months in Somalia: a geostatistical analysis
2018
Background Malnutrition and malaria are both significant causes of morbidity and mortality in African children. However, the extent of their spatial comorbidity remains unexplored and an understanding of their spatial correlation structure would inform improvement of integrated interventions. We aimed to determine the spatial correlation between both wasting and low mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) and falciparum malaria among Somalian children aged 6–59 months. Methods Data were from 49 227 children living in 888 villages between 2007 to 2010. We developed a Bayesian geostatistical shared component model in order to determine the common spatial distributions of wasting and falciparum mal…
Madura foot: An imported case of a non-common diagnosis
2018
Mycetoma (or "madura foot") is characterized by deformation, cutaneous lesions, infection of tissues extending from the cutaneous layer to the underlying fascia, and an indolent course. A number of fungal or bacterial agents that are introduced through traumatic inoculation can be responsible for the disease, but Actinomadura madurae is among the most common agents of mycetoma occurring worldwide. We report a case of madura foot caused by A. madurae in an immunocompetent young Somali man who was admitted with a diagnosis of skin and soft tissue infection of the left foot with osteomyelitis. The present report emphasizes the importance of the knowledge of this infection, which is sporadic bu…
Somalia: From the Errors of Colonialism to the Horrors of War
2012
Chapter 5 analyses the reality of the Republic of Somalia, a country which is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in history. The first descriptive part of the article shows how the current human catastrophe devastating the Somali people is the result of the incomprehensible de-composition of one of the most homogenous peoples in Africa, not only ethnically speaking, but also from a linguistic, religious and cultural point of view. This de-composition, which has led to Somalia being known as the “State without State”, is undoubtedly rooted in the errors and horrors suffered, in the first place, during the successive processes of colonization and de-colonisation, but also during t…
“Le voci dell’Africa nelle lettere italiane”
2007
By referring to the postcolonial and diaspora studies, the essay analyzes the rise of a multicultural literature in Italy where Africa's literary voices contribute to a transformation of the national canon, opening it up to the contemporary notion of a transnational literature that crosses languages, territories and cultures.