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A 6 page paper which provides an overview of Somalia with a
discussion of education as it relates to immigrants in the United States. Bibliography lists
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or disease or were killed in the war, and nearly 45% of the population was displaced inside Somalia or fled to neighboring countries, to the Middle East, or to the
West" (Somalis-Their History and Culture, 2003). Clearly the civil war caused a great deal of change to this country, though change is perhaps not foreign to these people who essentially
live in the midst of much change. The following paper examines the history and present conditions of the Somalis and then discusses the immigrants in the United States and issues
of education. History and Present Day Conditions The history of Somalia goes far back, as one would expect. The first notably historical and influential interaction with other nations
appears to have taken place when the "Muslim Arabs and Persians established trading posts along Somalias coasts from the 7th to 10th cent., and Somali warriors joined Muslim sultanates in
their battles with Christian Ethiopia in the 15th and 16th cent" (Hejleh, 2003). It was in the 19th century that "Britain, France, and Italy began to dominate the region...Britain established
a protectorate in 1887 and concluded an agreement with France in 1888 defining their Somali possessions. Italy created a small protectorate in 1889, added territory in the south, and in
1925 detached Jubaland from Kenya" (Hejleh, 2003). The Italian Somaliland was conquered by Britain in WWII and then given the name Somalia. It gained its independence, or "internal autonomy
in 1956 and independence and unification with British Somaliland in 1960. The presence of some 350,000 Somalis in neighboring countries stirred demands for a Greater Somalia, and fighting erupted with
Ethiopia in 1964 over the Ogaden region, which Somalia claims" (Hejleh, 2003). Then, in 1969 a coup resulted in Somalia becoming a socialist state. "In 1977 the corrupt and repressive
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