TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abdi Wario,Halkano
AU  - Carrier,Neil
AU  - Elliott,Hannah
AU  - Hassan,Yusuf
AU  - Iazzolino,Gianluca
AU  - Kochore,Hassan H.
AU  - Lowe,Lucy
AU  - Mwangi Githigaro,John
AU  - Omeje,Kenneth
AU  - Ripero-Muñiz,Nereida
AU  - Ritchie,Holly A.
AU  - Scharrer,Tabea
AU  - Schlee,Günther
AU  - Wandera,Joseph
AU  - Whittaker,Hannah
AU  - Yarnell,Mark
TI  - Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa 
T2  - Integration and Conflict Studies
SN  - 9781789202960
U1  - 305.89354067 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Labor mobility
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Migrations
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - East Africa
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Migration
KW  - Somalia
KW  - Urban Transformation
KW  - Urbanity and Mobility
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202977?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789202977
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789202977/original
ER  -