Forging African Communities Mobility, Integration and Belonging

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 migrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bakewell, Oliver (Editor), Landau, Loren B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Global Diversities
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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