explores the relationship between mobility and urban transformation using the case of Somalis in the East African region provides an up to date study of the economies and politics around Somalis in Kenya and the wider East African region offers new insights into the topic of urban spaces in Africa, especially in relation to migration brings together scholars and practitioners, offering insight into contemporary dynamics from varied perspectives
explores the relationship between mobility and urban transformation using the case of Somalis in the East African region provides an up to date study of the economies and politics around Somalis in Kenya and the wider East African region offers new insights into the topic of urban spaces in Africa, especially in relation to migration brings together scholars and practitioners, offering insight into contemporary dynamics from varied perspectives
Tabea Scharrer is currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Germany), doing research with Somali migrants in Kenyan urban centres and in Europe. She wrote her dissertation on Muslim Missionary Movements and Conversion to Islam at the Free University in Berlin.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Introduction: Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier Interlude: Being and Becoming Mobile Yusuf Hassan PART II: URBANITY Chapter 1. The Somali Factor in Urban Kenya: A History Hannah Whittaker Chapter 2. The Port and the Island: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Identity Constructions among Somali Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg Nereida Ripero-Muñiz Chapter 3. Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore PART III: ECONOMIC NETWORKS Chapter 4. Demanding and Commanding Goods: The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the 'Lives' of Its Commodities Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott Chapter 5. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje Chapter 6. Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya Holly A. Ritchie Chapter 7. Reinventing Retail: 'Somali' Shopping Centres in Kenya Tabea Scharrer PART IV: THE POLITICS OF SOMALI MOBILITY Chapter 8. Perpetually in Transit: Somalian Refugees in a Context of Increasing Hostility Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell Chapter 9. Framing the Swoop: A Comparative Analysis of Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and Secular Print Media in Kenya Joseph Wandera and Halkano Abdi Wario Chapter 10. Beyond Eastleigh: A New Little Mogadishu in Uganda? Gianluca Iazzolino Afterword Günther Schlee Glossary Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Introduction: Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier Interlude: Being and Becoming Mobile Yusuf Hassan PART II: URBANITY Chapter 1. The Somali Factor in Urban Kenya: A History Hannah Whittaker Chapter 2. The Port and the Island: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Identity Constructions among Somali Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg Nereida Ripero-Muñiz Chapter 3. Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore PART III: ECONOMIC NETWORKS Chapter 4. Demanding and Commanding Goods: The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the 'Lives' of Its Commodities Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott Chapter 5. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje Chapter 6. Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya Holly A. Ritchie Chapter 7. Reinventing Retail: 'Somali' Shopping Centres in Kenya Tabea Scharrer PART IV: THE POLITICS OF SOMALI MOBILITY Chapter 8. Perpetually in Transit: Somalian Refugees in a Context of Increasing Hostility Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell Chapter 9. Framing the Swoop: A Comparative Analysis of Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and Secular Print Media in Kenya Joseph Wandera and Halkano Abdi Wario Chapter 10. Beyond Eastleigh: A New Little Mogadishu in Uganda? Gianluca Iazzolino Afterword Günther Schlee Glossary Index
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