ISBN:
0253000750
,
9780253000750
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 274 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Thompson, Marshall Bruce Whitehouse. Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012 (ISBN: 978-0-253-00082-8). Price not stated. Paperback: 274 pages 2012
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971- Migrants and strangers in an African city
DDC:
305.896606724
Keywords:
West Africans Social conditions
;
Congo (Brazzaville)
;
Transnationalism Social aspects
;
Transnationalism Social aspects
;
West Africans Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Commerce
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Emigration and immigration
;
Religion
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Black Studies (Global)
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History
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Commerce
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Religion
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Commerce
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Religion
;
Congo (Brazzaville) Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Congo (Brazzaville)
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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