Somalia-Before+Refugee+Crisis

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Life before refugee crisis: include occupations, daily life, life for children, standard of living, religious expression, role of women
 * Men and woman are commonly have different roles during the day due to the majority of Islamic culture.
 * The traditional role was the man getting a job in the town and the women staying at home with the children
 * Aside from this there was the nomadic lifestyle, these people moved seasonally following their livestock and crops
 * Somalians used to exist predominantly as parts of clans and sub-clans.
 * Membership in a clan was determined by paternal lineage, [[image:http://www.mises.org/images4/somalia.jpg width="246" height="246" align="center"]]-however, marriage between clans did happen often.
 * When a women married a man from a different clan the woman would be taken into that clan, as well as her original clan.
 * The majority of Somalians would live with their extended families.
 * When an individual has to move to the city, they would find family there and stay with them.
 * There are divorces but they are initiated by the men

Somalian Village http://www.mises.org/images4/somalia.jpg Sources: [|**http://ethnomed.org/cultures/somali/somali_cp.html**]
 * Before Refugee Crisis:**