Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi - Africas Sanctuary City

Derese G. Kassa provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya, with a focus on the lived experience of Ethiopian refugees. This book is a timely and remarkable addition to comparative urban studies, African studies, and refugee studies.

List of contents

1. Setting the Scene

2. Africa's Sanctuary City

3. The Making of Urban Refugees

4. "Governing" Refugees

5. Refugee Spaces

Bibliography

About the author

Derese G. Kassa is assistant professor of sociology at Iona College.

Summary

This book sheds light on Africa’s urban refugee spaces and is an expose and critical analysis of state–refugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya. The author employs Henry Lefebvre’s work on “right to the city” to explore and qualify whether the literature on urban citizenship can speak to Nairobi’s context.

Product details

• Authors: Derese G. Kassa
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498570992
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7099-2
• No. of pages: 102
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social and cultural history, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Urban communities / city life