Lauren Carruth is Chair of the Department of Environment, Development & Health and Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is author of Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lahra Smith is Director of the African Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She is author of Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia and editor (with Meron Zeleke) of African Perspectives on South-South Migration.
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Acknowledgments Notes on Translation Preface List of Major Ethnofictional Characters Part I: Dureessa's Journey 1. Refugees in Djibouti Part II: Histories 2. Histories of Enslavement and/or Escape Part III: Escapes 3. Refugees: Victims and/or Migrants Part IV: Delalas 4. Delalas: Criminals and/or Helpers Part V: Rescues 5. International Humanitarianism: Rescue and/or Refoulement Part VI: Connections 6. Conclusions Appendix: Timeline of Key Historical Moments in the Ethnofictional Story Bibliography Index
"In documenting the experiences, agency and voice of a people on the move in the Horn of Africa, Lauren Carruth and Lahra Smith go to great lengths to capture the stories from the perspectives of those very people. . . . Their ethnographic accounts give a snapshot of the human side to the difficult situation that is the day-to-day reality of so many."-Awet T. Weldemichael, author of Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa