Migrants and Strangers in an African City : Exile, Dignity, Belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.

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Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971-

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text

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online resource

ISBN:

0253000750
9780253000750

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migrants and strangers in an African city.DDC classification:

305.896/606724 23

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JV9016.5 .W84 2012

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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.

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 d.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 d.

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