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Forging African Communities

Mobility, Integration and Belonging

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Editors:
  1. Oliver Bakewell

    1. Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  2. Loren B. Landau

    1. African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Fills a significant lacuna in research by addressing intra-Africa migration
  • Presents work by a diverse set of scholars working in a broad range of African settings
  • Speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration

Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Forging a Study of Mobility, Integration and Belonging in Africa

    • Loren B. Landau, Oliver Bakewell
    Pages 1-24

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 313-321
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About this book

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa. It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how people’s movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind. Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts, actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely shaped by research in the world’s wealthy regions. The text, in part or as a whole, will appeal to students and scholars of migration, development, urban and rural transformation, African studies and displacement.

Reviews

“Forging African Communities, an important new volume edited by Oliver Bakewell and Loren Landau, unsettles these models and challenges their application to migrant flows in Africa and beyond. This volume showcases work by an interdisciplinary array of scholars and practitioners, including many based at African universities.” (Bruce Whitehouse, Migration and Society, Vol. 1, 2018)​ “This timely book represents a major contribution to our understanding of social, economic, political, and cultural processes related to human mobility in general and contemporary African migrations in particular. Its welcomed focus on agency and processes helps to bring new theoretical insights to the analysis of social change in migration contexts. The vivid case studies presented here challenge in a novel way old concepts and theories about migration that were predominantly based on empirical data collected among migrants in Western destinations. No doubt this book will be beneficial to the study of contemporary mobility and migration in the context of wealth countries across the globe.” (Abdoulaye Kane, University of Florida, USA, and Co-editor of African Migration: Patterns and Perspectives)

“‘Forging African Communities’ is an ambitious book that successfully achieves a dual mission. First and foremost, the diverse analyses of attachments, adaptations, and tactics come together as an illuminating account of contemporary migration within Africa—a staggeringly understudied phenomenon. More subtly, the book challenges standard concepts that reflect entrenched research and policy agendas in the Global North. The primary one is ‘integration’ which, if we are to keep using it, merits a refreshing overhaul in light of the analyses presented in this book.” (Jørgen Carling, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Oliver Bakewell

  • African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Loren B. Landau

About the editors

Oliver Bakewell is Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK and former Director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. 


Loren Landau is South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Diversity at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.








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