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Author Gow, Greg.

Title The Oromo in exile : from the Horn of Africa to the suburbs of Australia / Greg Gow
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002

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 W'PONDS  305.8935 Gow/Oie  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 170 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary The Oromo people are refugees who have fled continued persecution in Ethiopia and by the year 2002, more than 1500 of them had found their way to Australia. In this volume, Greg Gow offers an insight into the values and meanings of lives that could easily be seen as marginal
Analysis Ethiopia
Melbourne
Australian ethnic groups
Cultural identity
Language
Case studies
Oromo (African people)
Migration - Legal Migration - Illegal
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 155-164
Subject Ethiopians -- Australia.
Oromo (African people) -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Oromo (African people) -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Ethnic identity.
Oromo (African people) -- Ethnic identity.
Oromo language.
Refugees -- Ethiopia.
LC no. 2003427385
ISBN 0522849903