Cosmopolitan Refugees : : Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg / / Nereida Ripero-Muñiz.
Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmop...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forced Migration ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction. Cosmopolitan Refugees
- 1. The Port and the Island: Somalis in Nairobi and Johannesburg
- 2. The Dynamics of Identity and Placemaking: The Making of ‘Little Mogadishus’
- 3. Global and Local Identifications in Dialogue: Expressions of Somaliness in Nairobi and Johannesburg
- 4. Negotiating Religious and Cultural Identifications in Diasporic Spaces
- 5. Somali Women of Nairobi and Johannesburg: Migration, Agency and Aspirations
- Conclusion. Migrating in and Out of Africa
- References
- Index