Mobile urbanity Somali presence in urban East Africa / edited by Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer.

SeriesIntegration and conflict studies ; v. 20
Integration and conflict studies ; v. 20. ^A1165125
Contents Foreword. Being and becoming mobile / Yusuf Hassan -- Introduction / Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier -- Part I. Urbanity -- The Somali factor in urban Kenya: a history / Hannah Whittaker -- The port and the island. Cosmopolitan and vernacular identity constructions among Somali women in Nairobi and Johannesburg / Nereida Ripero-Muniz -- Being Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu': superdiversity, moral community and the open economy / Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore -- Part II. Economic networks -- Demanding and commanding goods: the Eastleigh transformation told through the 'lives' of its commodities / Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott -- Capital mobilization among the Somali refugee business community in Eastleigh, Nairobi / John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje -- Challenging the status quo from the bottom up? Gender and enterprise in Somali migrant communities in Nairobi, Kenya / Holly A. Ritchie -- Reinventing retail - 'Somali' shopping centres in Kenya / Tabea Scharrer -- Part III. The politics of Somali mobility -- Perpetually in transit: Somalian refugees in a context of increasing hostility / Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell -- Framing the swoop: a comparative analysis of the Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and secular print media in Kenya / Joseph Wandera and Halkano A. Wario -- Beyond Eastleigh: a new Little Mogadishu in Uganda? / Gianluca Iazzolino -- Afterword / Gunther Schlee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2019009573
ISBN9781789202960 (hardback ; alk. paper)

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