Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.

By: Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012Description: x, 274 p. : illISBN: 9780253000750 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): West Africans -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Social conditions | Transnationalism -- Social aspects | Congo (Brazzaville) -- Emigration and immigration -- History | Congo (Brazzaville) -- Commerce | Congo (Brazzaville) -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.896/606724 LOC classification: JV9016.5 | .W84 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: exile knows no dignity -- The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine -- Enterprising strangers -- Among the unbelievers -- The stranger's code -- Transnational kinship -- Children of exile -- Conclusion: the anchoring of identities -- Epilogue: displaced dreams.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: exile knows no dignity -- The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine -- Enterprising strangers -- Among the unbelievers -- The stranger's code -- Transnational kinship -- Children of exile -- Conclusion: the anchoring of identities -- Epilogue: displaced dreams.

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