Since the 1880s, the city of Cardiff has boasted a large community of ethnic Somalis. This considerable Somali influx into Cardiff and other British cities resulted from the fact that from the late 1800s to 1950, modern Somalia was split between two colonial protectorates, the North-Western British protectorate and the larger Italian protectorate.<\/p>\n
Those Somalis who lived under the British protectorate enjoyed the right to travel to and work in the UK with many Somali men migrating to find jobs in Britain\u2019s maritime and steel industries to support their families back in Somalia. A second wave of Somalis came in the 1980s when the now independent Somalia descended into civil war, forcing thousands of Somali families to flee, many joining their relatives in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
Out of the chaos of Somalia\u2019s civil war, the former British Somaliland protectorate declared its independence as the autonomous state of Somaliland in 1991. Somaliland, while technically part of Somalia, is in practise an independent country, which has achieved much international recognition, including from the Cardiff City Council.<\/p>\n
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