{"id":2325,"date":"2017-09-06T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2325"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:20","slug":"photography-exhibit-metropolitan-nomads-a-journey-through-joburgs-little-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/photography-exhibit-metropolitan-nomads-a-journey-through-joburgs-little-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Nomads:\u00a0A Journey Through Joburg\u2019s Little Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/cu_event\/photography-exhibit-metropolitan-nomads-a-journey-through-joburgs-little-mogadishu\/nomads-1-1000x667\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2329\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Nomads-1-1000x667.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayfair, a Johannesburg suburb, is a place where the lives of hundreds of Somalis&nbsp;intersect; a space of opportunity for some, a place of refuge for others, and a home&nbsp;away from home for the Somali diaspora in the city. This is a multi-layered site where&nbsp;Somali migrants, as urban refugees, renegotiate their cultural practices in a foreign,&nbsp;metropolitan context; where spaces and customs that were left behind are recreated&nbsp;in the daily life of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using photography and an ethnographic&nbsp;approach, Metropolitan Nomads takes an intimate look at the everyday life of&nbsp;Somali migrants in Johannesburg, where collective stories of migration and survival interweave with the individual desires and hopes of seeking a better life outside a&nbsp;country shattered by decades of internal conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey&nbsp;through Joburg\u2019s Little Mogadishu is a collaborative project between researcher&nbsp;Nereida Ripero-Mu\u00f1iz and documentary photographer Salym Fayad, supported by&nbsp;the African Centre for Migration &amp; Society (ACMS) at Wits University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-2325","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2017-05-01T00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"PA","cu_event_meeting_room":"4th Floor","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2325\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}