Between Hostility and Cosmopolitanism: Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

Nereida Ripero Muñiz is a lecturer and researcher from Spain currently based at the University of the Witwatersrand. She studied in Amsterdam and London before taking up a lecturer position at the United States International University, Nairobi, in 2007. There she started researching the Somali community residing in the city. In 2016, she was awarded a PhD by the University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctoral thesis investigated identity construction among Somali women living in Nairobi and Johannesburg. Her current research focuses on the transnational cultural links of the global Somali diaspora. She also was the researcher behind the collaborative photography project “Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey Through Johannesburg’s Little Mogadishu” currently on display on the 4th Floor of Paterson Hall. She also has edited an open-access e-book for this project.