Dokument #1231785
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
1) According to a Somali doctoral student
in the Department of African Studies at the University of
California in Los Angeles (UCLA), no Somali Muslim woman takes on
the name of her husband when she gets married (14 May 1992).
2) The same source mentions that the Somali society is based on the principle of patrilineal descent, thus children are named after their father or grandfather (Ibid.).
For further information on the Somali
naming system, please refer to the attached section of a document
written by the Somali Women's Health Group in Ottawa (Aug. 1991,
6).
3) The Somali doctoral student states that
a child considers the child of her mother's sister as his/her first
cousin and refers to that person as a brother or a sister and thus
he/she is a very close relative (14 May 1992)
For further information on the Somali
kinship ties, please refer to the attached excerpt of the Somalia
Cultural Profile entitled The Nomadic Clan of Somalia: History,
Culture, Social Structure (June 1991, 5-6).
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. June 1991. The Nomadic
Clan of Somalia: History, Culture, Social Structure, pp.
5-6.
Somali Women's Health Group. August
1991. Somalians in Canada: A Guide for Health and Service
Providers, p. 6.
University of California in Los Angeles
(UCLA). 14 May 1992. Telephone Interview with a Doctoral
Student.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. June 1991. The Nomadic
Clan of Somalia: History, Culture, Social Structure, pp.
5-6.
Somali Women's Health Group, Ottawa.
August 1991. Somalians in Canada: A Guide for Health and Service
Providers, p. 6.