Overview
- Fills a significant lacuna in research by addressing intra-Africa migration
- Presents work by a diverse set of scholars working in a broad range of African settings
- Speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Keywords
- refugee
- migrant integration
- migration
- assimilation
- migration within Africa
- translocal
- human mobility
- religious and political diasporas
- African migration
- host communities
- African cities
- ethnic heterogeneity
- urban citizenship
- forms of belonging
- translocal subjectivities
- diaspora
- Host–guest relationship
- creolisation
- Pentecostalism
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Agents of Integration: Decentring Policy and the State
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Negotiating Scales and Spaces of Belonging
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Emergent Socialities and Subjectivities
Reviews
“‘Forging African Communities’ is an ambitious book that successfully achieves a dual mission. First and foremost, the diverse analyses of attachments, adaptations, and tactics come together as an illuminating account of contemporary migration within Africa—a staggeringly understudied phenomenon. More subtly, the book challenges standard concepts that reflect entrenched research and policy agendas in the Global North. The primary one is ‘integration’ which, if we are to keep using it, merits a refreshing overhaul in light of the analyses presented in this book.” (Jørgen Carling, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Loren Landau is South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Diversity at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forging African Communities
Book Subtitle: Mobility, Integration and Belonging
Editors: Oliver Bakewell, Loren B. Landau
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58194-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58193-8Published: 04 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58194-5Published: 22 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Diaspora, Development and Social Change, African Politics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)