Mobile urbanity : Somali presence in urban East Africa /

The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya. This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, showing its historical depth, and exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Carrier, Neil C. M. (Autor, Editor ), Scharrer, Tabea (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Colección:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 20.
Temas:
Labor mobility > Africa, East.
Somalis > Africa, East.
Immigrants > Africa, East.
Somalis > Migrations.
City and town life > Africa, East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
City and town life
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Immigrants
Labor mobility
Somalis
Somalis > Migrations
Africa, East > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Afrique orientale anglophone > Émigration et immigration > Aspect économique.
Africa, East
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword. Being and becoming mobile / Yusuf Hassan
  • Introduction / Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier
  • Part I. Urbanity
  • The Somali factor in urban Kenya: a history / Hannah Whittaker
  • The port and the island. Cosmopolitan and vernacular identity constructions among Somali women in Nairobi and Johannesburg / Nereida Ripero-Muniz
  • Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': superdiversity, moral community and the open economy / Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore
  • Part II. Economic networks
  • Demanding and commanding goods: the Eastleigh transformation told through the 'lives' of its commodities / Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott
  • Capital mobilization among the Somali refugee business community in Eastleigh, Nairobi / John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje
  • Challenging the status quo from the bottom up? Gender and enterprise in Somali migrant communities in Nairobi, Kenya / Holly A. Ritchie
  • Reinventing retail
  • 'Somali' shopping centres in Kenya / Tabea Scharrer
  • Part III. The politics of Somali mobility
  • Perpetually in transit: Somalian refugees in a context of increasing hostility / Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell
  • Framing the swoop: a comparative analysis of the Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and secular print media in Kenya / Joseph Wandera and Halkano A. Wario
  • Beyond Eastleigh: a new Little Mogadishu in Uganda? / Gianluca Iazzolino
  • Afterword / Gunther Schlee.

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