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| ISBN: | 0253000750
9780253000750
1280125802
9781280125805
9780253000811
0253000815
9780253000828
0253000823
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and d.
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| Other form: | Print version: Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971- Migrants and strangers in an African city. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012 9780253000811
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