Strategies to leave past trauma and violence behind and focus
on moving on were prominent findings. With the move-on
approach, questioning the need for counselling followed.
Notions made of similar ‘moving on’ strategies have been shared
previously in interviews with Swedish midwives caring for Somali
born women(Byrskog etal.,2015) and among young Somali
migrant women in the UnitedKingdom(Whittaker etal.,2005).
The social phenomena of forgetting as a means to cope with adversities
is found in varied populations; among Tigrinyan war-victims in Ethiopia(Nordanger,2007);