Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.
2012
JV9016.5 .W84 2012eb
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Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.
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9780253000750 (electronic bk.)
9780253000811
9780253000828 (pbk.)
9780253000811
9780253000828 (pbk.)
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 274 p.) : ill.
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JV9016.5 .W84 2012eb
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305.896/606724
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In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: exile knows no dignity
The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine
Enterprising strangers
Among the unbelievers
The stranger's code
Transnational kinship
Children of exile
Conclusion: the anchoring of identities
Epilogue: displaced dreams.
The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine
Enterprising strangers
Among the unbelievers
The stranger's code
Transnational kinship
Children of exile
Conclusion: the anchoring of identities
Epilogue: displaced dreams.