Een ander geluid over Somaliers: 100 Years After Somalis Arrive in London, It’s High Time to Learn About Them (maar er is ook een Amsterdam versie)
October 16, 2014 by Anya Ahmed Open Society Initiative for Europe 1 comment 100 Years After Somalis Arrive in London, It’s High Time to Learn About Them There has been a Somali presence in London for over a hundred years. The first Somalis to arrive in Britain were economic migrants. Merchant seamen settled in cities including Cardiff, Liverpool, and London. There are records of British Somalis in London dating back to 1914 when they were recruited to fight in the First World War and then subsequently settled there. In the 1990s civil war in Somali forced another wave of migration to Britain. Today, Somalis are one of the most misunderstood groups in the United Kingdom,...