Diasporas within and without Africa
Subtitle: dynamism, heterogeneity, variation
By: edited by Leif Manger and Munzoul A.M. Assal.
Contributors: Manger, Leif O.; Assal, Munzoul A. M.; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789171065636
Subjects: African diaspora; Immigrants -- Africa; Africans -- Foreign countries; Migration, Internal -- Africa; Africa -- Emigration and immigration
Description: The book deals with two types of African diasporas, the first of which originated in the migration histories of the Indian Ocean and brought new groups into Africa. This is illustrated by case studies of Hadrami communities in Sudan and Zanzibar, and the Malay community in Cape Town, that produced trade links as well as processes of Islamization. The second type originated with the failing African states and cases discussed are an Eritrean diaspora in Germany, alongside Sudanese diasporas in Norway and the USA, and a Somali diaspora in Norway. The papers deal with processes of homemaking, political mobilization in the diaspora through local organisations, religious networks and cyberspace nationalism. The central conceptual argument is that diaspora is not only a post-modern reaction to the xenophobia of Western nation states but must be seen as part of a broader history of human migration and intercultural experience. This calls for a perspective which takes into consideration historically produced variation and dynamism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diasporas within and without Africa : dynamism, heterogeneity, variation / Leif Manger and Munzoul A.M. Assal; title: Diasporic consciousness as a strategic resource : a case study from a Cape Muslim community / Sindre Bangstad; title: A Hadrami diaspora in the Sudan : individual life courses in regional and global contexts / Leif Manger; title: My generation :  ʻUmar b. Aḥmad b. Sumayṭ (1886-1973) : intergenerational network transmission in a trans-oceanic Ḥadrami ʻAlawi family, ca. 1925-1973 / Anne K. Bang; title: "We are the Warsay of Eritrea in diaspora" : contested identities and social divisions in cyberspace and in real life / Bettina Conrad; title: Southern Sudanese : a community in exile / Roqaia Abusharaf; title: Somali and Sudanese in Norway : religion, ethnicity/clan and politics in the diaspora / Munzoul A.M. Assal.