Futures Lost and Gained: Shifting Horizons of Hope in the Somali Diaspora
Name of applicant
Nauja Kleist
Title
Senior Researcher
Institution
Danish Institute for International Studies
Amount
DKK 868,217
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
How and where do refugees imagine their future during crises? This book follows Somali refugees in Denmark over two generations, demonstrating how their lives and futures transform as hopes are lost, persist, or are recreated during conflict, migration and the establishment of new lives Denmark. It thereby offers novel theoretical perspectives on hope and future-making in an uncertain world.