Forging African Communities (eBook)

Mobility, Integration and Belonging

Oliver Bakewell, Loren B. Landau (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
IX, 321 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-58194-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa. It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how people's movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind. Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts, actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely shaped by research in the world's wealthy regions. The text, in part or as a whole, will appeal to students and scholars of migration, development, urban and rural transformation, African studies and displacement.

Oliver Bakewell is former Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) and Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK.

Loren Landau is South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Diversity at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Autor

Oliver Bakewell is Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK and former Director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. Loren Landau is South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Diversity at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: Forging a Study of Mobility, Integration and Belonging in Africa; Loren B Landau and Oliver Bakewell.- Part 1.- Chapter 2: “We are like a bat. We are neither birds nor animals”: Where the formal and informal collide as Burundian refugees in Tanzania struggle for belonging ; Lucy Hovil.- Chapter 3: Integration from the beach: insights from the experiences of artisanal fishing immigrants in Pointe-Noire City, Congo-Brazzaville; Gabriel Tati.- Chapter 4: The Moroccan moment and communities of itinerants: mobility and belonging in the transnational trajectories of sub-Saharan migrants; Johara Berriane.- Chapter 5: Negotiating a space of belonging: a case study from the Zambia-Angolan borderlands; Oliver Bakewell.- Part 2.- Chapter 6: Tactical Creolisation and the Production of Belonging in Migrant Pentecostal Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Peter Kankonde Bukasa.- Chapter 7: Catechism, Commerce and Categories: Nigerian Male Migrant Traders in Harare; Pedzisayi Leslie Mangezvo.- Chapter 8: Social capital, spatial conquests and migrants’ social mixity: Nigerians and Chinese in Lubumbashi, DRC; Germain Ngoie Tshibambe.- Chapter 9: ‘We are all Ugandans’: In search of belonging in Kampala’s urban space; Naluwembe Binaisa.- Part 3.- Chapter 10: “The Friends of our Friends are our Friends”: Determinants of Hosts’ Contact with International Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Steven Gordon.- Chapter 11: Pentecostalism and a global community of sentiment: the cases of Nigerian and Congolese pastors in Diaspora; Rafael Cazarin.- Chapter 12: Shallow Solidarities: Space and Socialities of Accommodation and Exclusion in Nairobi and Johannesburg; Loren B Landau and Iriann Freemantle.- 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Global Diversities
• Reihe/Serie: Global Diversities
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 321 p. 1 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African cities • African Migration • assimilation • creolisation • Diaspora • ethnic heterogeneity • forms of belonging • host communities • Host–guest relationship • human mobility • migrant integration • Migration • migration within Africa • Pentecostalism • Refugee • religious and political diasporas • Translocal • translocal subjectivities • Urban Citizenship • urban geography and urbanism
• ISBN-10: 1-137-58194-8 / 1137581948
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-58194-5 / 9781137581945