From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Ethiopians/John Sorenson
The literature on Ethiopia is extensive and recent trends have stressed African perspectives. John Sorenson’s Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa (New Brunswick, N.J., 1993) investigates images of history and identity, while John Markakis’s National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa (Cambridge, U.K., 1987) provides a regional view on recent events in the area. The revolution of 1974 is the focus of Edmond J. Keller’s Revolutionary Ethiopia (Bloomington, Ind., 1988).
The Oromos are the focal point of Mohammed Hassen’s The Oromo of Ethiopia (Cambridge, 1990) and Bonnie K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa’s The Invention of Ethiopia (Trenton, 1990). Attention to other groups was sparked by Donald Donham and Wendy James, The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia (Cambridge, 1986). African refugees in general are discussed in Gaim Kibreab, Refugees and Development in Africa (Trenton, 1987), and Tom Kuhlman’sBurden or Boon? (Amsterdam, [1990]). Information on Ethiopian refugees in the United States can be found in Peter H. Koehn, Refugees from Revolution (Boulder, Colo., 1991), and Lucia Ann McSpadden,Ethiopian Refugees in the United States: A Guide for Sponsors (1989).
For Canada, Helene Moussa, Storm and Sanctuary: The Journey of Ethiopian and Eritrean Women Refugees (Dundas, Ont., 1993), provides extensive information on female Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees. Other material on Ethiopians in Canada can be found in Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson, “Ethnic Identity and Social Service Delivery: Some Models Examined in Relation to Immigrants and Refugees from Ethiopia,” Canadian Social Work Review, vol.8, no.2 (1991), 255–68; and in two other articles by John Sorenson, “Politics of Social Identity: Ethiopians in Canada,” Journal of Ethnic Studies, vol.19, no.1 (1991), 67–86, and “Race Relations: Ethiopians in Canada,” Currents, vol.6, no.3 (1991), 21–23. A short study dealing with Ethiopians is Gertrude Neuwirth, The Settlement of Ethiopian Refugees in Toronto: An Exploratory Study (Ottawa, 1989).
