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Somali Bantu refugee resettlement
Somali Bantu refugee resettlement was the transfer of about 12,000 Somali Bantu refugees from Kenyan camps to US cities beginning in May 2003, the largest resettlement program ever undertaken in Africa.
Somali clans
Somali clans are patrilineal descent groups organized into clan-families such as the Darod, Hawiye, Dir, and Rahanweyn, bound by xeer contracts and diya blood-compensation groups, central to Somali identity, security, and post-1991 politics.
Somali people
Somali people (Soomaalida) are a Cushitic ethnolinguistic group of the Horn of Africa, 25-30 million strong, Shafi'i Sunni, clan-organized, speaking Somali, spanning Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and a global diaspora.
Somali refugees in Kenya
Somali refugees in Kenya are people who fled Somalia, mostly after civil war broke out in 1991, and live largely in the Dadaab and Kakuma camps and in Nairobi.
Sorbs
Sorbs (Serbski lud), a West Slavic ethnic minority of about 60,000 in Lusatia, eastern Germany; smallest Slavic group, speaking Upper and Lower Sorbian, concentrated in Saxony and Brandenburg.
Sotho people
The Sotho people, also called the Basotho, are a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa who speak Sesotho and live mainly in Lesotho and South Africa.
South Asian diaspora
South Asian diaspora: people of South Asian origin living outside India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and neighboring countries; one of the world's largest diasporas, shaped by indenture (1830s–1917), the 1947 Partition, and postwar flows to the Gulf, North America, and Europe.
South Korean defectors
South Korean defectors are people from North Korea who fled, took citizenship in South Korea, and then left to seek refugee protection elsewhere.
South Slavs
South Slavs: the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, including Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Bulgarians; settled the peninsula in the 6th and 7th centuries.
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are people who fled conflict in South Sudan for asylum in Uganda, largely through land-based settlements like Bidibidi, opened in 2016.
Space colonization
Space colonization: establishing self-sustaining human settlements beyond Earth, distinct from stations or short missions. Covers Moon, Mars and orbital habitats, radiation and life-support barriers, Artemis timelines, and space law.
Spaniards
Spaniards (Españoles) are the people of Spain, defined by Spanish nationality and the historical, linguistic, and religious inheritance of the Iberian Peninsula, including regional-language speakers and a large diaspora.
Spanish immigration to Argentina
Spanish immigration to Argentina was the mass movement of people from Spain to Argentina, principally from the 1880s to the early 1960s, making Spaniards the second largest foreign-born group after Italians.
Spolok svätého Vojtecha
Spolok svätého Vojtecha (Society of Saint Adalbert, SSV) is the largest and oldest Catholic association in Slovakia, founded in 1870 in Trnava by Andrej Radlinský.
Squanto
Squanto (Tisquantum), Patuxet Wampanoag interpreter and guide for Plymouth Colony, kidnapped in 1614, sole survivor of his village, died 1622 at Manamoick.
Squaw
Squaw: English word for a Native American woman, from Algonquian (Massachusett squa) 'woman', 1630s; now a slur for Indigenous women. Removed from about 650 US federal place names by Secretarial Order 3404 and Board on Geographic Names votes in 2022-2023.
Squeegee man
Squeegee man, also squeegee kid or squeegee guy: a person who washes car windshields at traffic lights unasked and asks for payment. Notable in 1990s New York crackdowns and ongoing Baltimore enforcement debates.
Sri Lankan Moors
Sri Lankan Moors, or Sri Lanka Moors, are a Tamil-speaking Sunni Muslim ethnic group, 10.47 percent of the 2024 census population, of Arab-Persian merchant descent, distinct from Tamils and Sinhalese.
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils, also called Ceylon or Jaffna Tamils, are an ethnic group about 11.2% of Sri Lanka's population, descended from ancient migrants from southern India, concentrated in the north and east, mostly Hindu Tamil-speaking, and distinct from Hill Country Tamils.
SSPX Resistance
The SSPX Resistance is the traditionalist Catholic movement founded in March 2015 by bishops Richard Williamson and Jean-Michel Faure after breaking with the Society of St. Pius X over its Rome policy; excommunicated, tiny, and rejecting dialogue with the Vatican.
Stateless nation
Stateless nation: an ethnic or national group, such as the Kurds (~30 million across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria) or Palestinians, sharing identity and homeland but lacking a sovereign state; distinct from individual statelessness.
Stateless society
Stateless societies are communities that maintain order, settle disputes, and organize collective life without centralized government, through kinship, custom law, mediation, and persuasion; classic examples include the Ifugao and pre-colonial African segmentary societies.
Stephany Hollihan
Stephany Hollihan Vasconez, Ecuadorian fashion designer from Guayaquil and founder of Sensi Studio (2010), known for toquilla-straw Panama hats and artisanal resortwear sold in over 15 countries; died 19 August 2026 in a Kenya helicopter crash with her husband, intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi.
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States, also called perpetual foreigner, model minority, and yellow peril tropes, cast Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans as unassimilable foreigners and uniformly high achievers, driving discrimination and media underrepresentation.
Stereotypes of Jews
Stereotypes of Jews: false beliefs about Jewish greed, dual loyalty, and secret power, rooted in early Christian anti-Judaism and medieval tropes like the blood libel, measured today by the ADL Global 100 index.
Stereotypes of South Asians
Stereotypes of South Asians: oversimplified beliefs about South Asian people and the diaspora, including comic-relief media tropes (Apu, Raj), the perpetual foreigner and terrorist slurs, workplace and healthcare discrimination, and recent shifts in screen representation.
Stereotypes of white Americans
Stereotypes of white Americans: beliefs ascribed to white Americans by other groups, including high competence, racism, and entitlement; studied via minority attitudes, class-based stereotypes like "white trash," and competence downshift in speech.
Sterilization of Native American women
Sterilization of Native American women: IHS-performed procedures, 1960s-1970s, often without informed consent; GAO found 3,406 sterilizations in four service areas, 1973-1976; ended by 1978 HEW regulations.
Strauss–Howe generational theory
The Strauss–Howe generational theory, also known as Strauss and Howe, is a theory developed in the 1990s holding that American history cycles through four recurring turnings.
Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate below the replacement level of about 2.1 births per woman. Over half of all countries, including India, China, and the US, are below it; global TFR was 2.25 in 2024 and is projected near 1.6 by 2100.