The Contexts of Diaspora Citizenship: Somali Communities in Finland and the United States

Part I: INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

Part II: PERSPECTIVES TO DIASPORA CITIZENSHIPS: CONTEXTS

1.      Facts and Figures: Somalis in Finland and in the United States

Marko Kananen & Ville-Samuli Haverinen

2.      The Newest African-Americans?:Somali Struggles for Belonging

Cawo M. Abdi

3.      Mainstream or Margins? How Somalis Perceive Their Status and Possibilities in Finnish and American Societies?

Marko Kananen

4.      The Call of the Homeland: "My Relationship to Somalia is Difficult to Explain"

 Marko Kananen

Part III: ACTING AS DIASPORA CITIZENS: AGENCIES

5.      Subject, Object, Predicate? Somali Migrants' Subject Positions in a Local Finnish Integration Scene

Päivi Armila & Yasemin Kontkanen

6.      Somalis In America's Heartland: Columbus,Ohio

Stefanie Chambers

7.      Integration, Finnish Somalis and Their Right to Everyday Life

8.      Somali Diaspora Women and Sense of Identity and Belonging

Habon Abdulle

9.      Diaspora Citizenship: Silenced, Stigmatized, Outlying - and Campaigning

 Päivi Armila & Yasemin Kontkanen

Part IV: STUDYING DIASPORA CITIZENSHIP: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL NOTIONS

10.  Of Premises for Cross-National Comparisons

11.  Notions about Cross-National Comparative Social Sciences and the Societal Role of Researchers

Ville-Samuli Haverinen

EPILOGUE

ABOUT THE AUTHORS