Desert Entanglements: the Making of Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees Western Sahara in Bloomington, MN

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call
badiya
. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism.
Desert Entanglements
analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.