Migrants and strangers in an African city
By: Bruce Whitehouse
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253000811; 9780253000828; 9780253000750
Subjects: Commerce; Social aspects; Religion; West Africans; Social conditions; Transnationalism; Emigration and immigration; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: exile knows no dignity; title: The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine; title: Enterprising strangers; title: Among the unbelievers; title: The stranger's code; title: Transnational kinship; title: Children of exile; title: Conclusion: the anchoring of identities; title: Epilogue: displaced dreams.