Mogadishu on the Mississippi

Martha H. Bigelow is an Associate Professor in the Second Languages and Cultures Education program at the University of Minnesota. Most of her current research, teaching, and community engagement activities are focused on the language learning, academic success, and healthy cultural adaptation of immigrant and refugee youth. She has completed studies in the areas of second language acquisition, language teacher education, and immigrant education.

• Series Editor’s Foreword. Acknowledgements.1. Engaged Scholarship in the Somali Communities of Minnesota.2. Orality and Literacy within the Somali Diaspora.3. Multilingualism and Multiliteracy among Somali Adolescent Girls.