Return Migration and Nation Building in Africa - Reframing the Somali Diaspora

List of contents

1. Introduction

2. A man who has not travelled has no eyes: the travel of history, histories of travel

3. The (trans)local organisation of power

4. You will never get rid of what you were born with: returning qurbajoog

5. Making culture, building a nation: Somali cultural festivals as laboratories of national-cultural identity

6. Drinking tea at the Maan-soor Hotel, Hargeysa

7. Toward trans-transnationalism

About the author

Adele Galipo is Honorary Research Associate at UCL Department of Social Science. She holds a PhD in anthropology and sociology of development from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is a former Swiss National Science Foundation fellow and visiting academic at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Her research interests include return migration, transnationalism, diasporas and refugees, gender, humanitarian action and international development.

Summary

This book explores the lived experiences of Africa's return migrants, analysing the complexities of migrant transnational experiences as situated in global political and economic processes. With reference to the Somali case this book will interest scholars of migration, development and African studies.

Product details

• Authors: Adele Galipo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664886
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66488-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Development Studies