Forging African Communities
Mobility, Integration and Belonging
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2017
IX, 321 pages
978-1-137-58194-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Forging African Communities, an important new volume edited by Oliver Bakewell and Loren Landau, unsettles these models and challenges their application to migrant flows in Africa and beyond. This volume showcases work by an interdisciplinary array of scholars and practitioners, including many based at African universities." (Bruce Whitehouse, Migration and Society, Vol. 1, 2018)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
IX, 321 p. 1 illus.
File size
3,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-58194-5 (9781137581945)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58194-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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.-
