Mobile Urbanity : : Somali Presence in Urban East Africa / / ed. by Tabea Scharrer, Neil Carrier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abdi Wario, Halkano,; Carrier, Neil,; Elliott, Hannah,; Hassan, Yusuf,; Iazzolino, Gianluca,; Kochore, Hassan H.,; Lowe, Lucy,; Mwangi Githigaro, John,; Omeje, Kenneth,; Ripero-Muñiz, Nereida,; Ritchie, Holly A.,; Scharrer, Tabea,; Schlee, Günther,; Wandera, Joseph,; Whittaker, Hannah,; Yarnell, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Carrier, Neil,; Scharrer, Tabea,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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 exploring the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility. The volume will be of interest for readers working in the broader field of migration, as well as anthropology and urban studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Introductions -- Introduction. Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa -- Interlude. Being and Becoming Mobile -- Part II. Urbanity -- Chapter 1. The Somali Factor in Urban Kenya: A History -- Chapter 2. The Port and the Island: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Identity Constructions among Somali Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg -- Chapter 3. Being Oromo in Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’: Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy -- Part III. Economic Networks -- Chapter 4. Demanding and Commanding Goods: The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the ‘Lives’ of Its Commodities -- Chapter 5. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi -- Chapter 6. Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya -- Chapter 7. Reinventing Retail: ‘Somali’ Shopping Centres in Kenya -- Part IV. The Politics of Somali Mobility -- Chapter 8. Perpetually in Transit: Somalian Refugees in a Context of Increasing Hostility -- Chapter 9. Framing the Swoop: A Comparative Analysis of Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and Secular Print Media in Kenya -- Chapter 10. Beyond Eastleigh: A New Little Mogadishu in Uganda? -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Index