ExtractTrauma survival and refugee experience Lydia Gitau In 2011, I was part of a team of Kenyan volunteers conducting ‘trauma awareness’ workshops at Dadaab Refugee Camp in Northeastern Kenya. Dadaab is now the third-largest ‘Refugee Complex’ in the world, established in 1991 to host refugees fleeing civil war in Somalia. A second influx of 130,000 refugees arrived in 2011, fleeing drought and famine in Southern Somalia (UNHCR 2020) . The workshops we ran focused on helping the refugees to acknowledge and name their feelings and emotions. Using a ‘manual’ prepared by an absent expert from the United States, we invited them into large groups to discuss and give words to ‘their trauma’. Not wanting to disappoint, they endeavoured to find words that fitted our descriptions of trauma, though I myself could not find a word to translate ‘trauma’ in my mother tongue. One of the 130,000 arrivals was Halima (name...