98,000 somalis are there in the uk.
98,000 somalis are there in the uk.
how many somalis are there in the uk?
98,000
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somalis in the united kingdom include british citizens and residents born in or with ancestors from british somaliland. it is thought that the united kingdom (uk) is home to the largest somali community in europe, with an estimated 98,000 somali-born immigrants residing in the uk in 2016 according to the office for national statistics. the majority of these live in england, with the largest number found in london. smaller somali communities exist in birmingham, bristol, manchester, liverpool, leicester, milton keynes, sheffield and cardiff.
somalis in the united kingdom
following the downfall of the siad barre government, there was effectively no formal monocentric government law in somalia. while some urban areas such as mogadishu had private police forces, many somalis simply returned to the traditional clan-based legal structures for local governance and dispute resolution. identified by "the new york times" as "legendary individualists", somalis have been thought of as particularly receptive to anarchist forms of social organisation; social scientists have identified the pastoralist way of life that a great many somalis lead as in tension with formal statist legal systems. political loyalties are based on clan and region rather than political party, which, according to the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs makes the sustainability of a centralised political system "difficult".
history of somalia (1991–2006)