Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.
Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971-
2012
JV9016.5 .W84 2012eb
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Title Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.
Author Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971-
ISBN 9780253000750 (electronic bk.)
9780253000811
9780253000828 (pbk.)
Publication Details Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 274 p.) : ill.
Call Number JV9016.5 .W84 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/606724
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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