A Somali-Norwegian Saga : My Journey from Refugee to Cab Driver to Professor

Abstract

With ethnic roots in Somalia, compounded by the experience of religious conversion, add to this an Anglo-Indian boarding school experience, and over three decades in Norway transitioning from the disparate roles of refugee, cab driver and professor, the author not only defies traditional processes of boundary-making but passionately advocates for the need to accommodate such hybridized identities in a third space of the national “we”.