It's one of those places you overlook, just like Spain, when it comes to how many Somalis live in southern Europe. There are Somalis in Italy, but most of them are recent qaxotis. In France, there are so few Somalis (mostly from Djibouti), and France has a lot of immigrants, so imagine how many Somalis live in places like Portugal. When I was in school, there was this Bengali kid who was born in Lisbon and could speak Portuguese. There were quite a few Portuguese madows and cadaans in my school too.