Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond / edited by Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk Van Dijk, & Dick Foeken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- editor.

Dijk, Rijk van, 1959- editor.

Foeken, D., editor.

Series:

African dynamics ; Volume 1.

African dynamics ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Africa.

Migration, Internal.

Africa--Emigration and immigration.

Africa.

Africa--Population.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, [2001]

Summary:

This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed. This book intends to turn the whole notion of mobility as a supposedly rupturing phenomenon on its head, emphasizing that rather through travelling connections are established and continuity is experienced. We are challenged to delve into the traveller's mind, to think and follow their multi-spatial livelihoods and to explore what it means to people if they move in a variety of spaces.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Maps

Tables

Preface

1 Mobile Africa: An introduction

2 Population mobility in Africa: An overview

3 Territorial and magical migrations in Tanzania

4 Moving into another spirit province: Immigrants and the Mhondoro cult in northern Zimbabwe

5 Cultures of travel: Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentacostalism in Ghana

6 Mobile workers, urban employment and 'rural' identities: Rural-urban networks of Buhera migrants, Zimbabwe

7 Migration as a positive response to opportunity and context: The case of Welo, Ethiopia

8 Multi-spatial livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rural farming by urban households - The case of Nakuru town, Kenya

9 Urbanisation and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changing patterns and trends

10 Processes and types of pastoral migration in northern Côte d'Ivoire

11 Mobility and exclusion: Conflicts between autochthons and allochthons during political liberalisation in Cameroon

12 Population displacement and the humanitarian aid regime: The experience of refugees in East Africa

List of authors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-49220-8

OCLC:

654416836