We do not have borders : greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya /

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Author / Creator:	Weitzberg, Keren, author.
Imprint:	Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	New African histories New African histories series.
Subject:	Somali diaspora. Somalis -- Kenya. Nationalism -- Kenya. Ethnic relations. Nationalism. Somali diaspora. Somalis. Kenya -- Ethnic relations -- History. Kenya. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11911472

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ISBN:	9780821445952 0821445952 9780821422588 0821422588 9780821422595 0821422596 0821445952
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 27, 2017).
Summary:	Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.

Table of Contents:

Nomadic expansion, cosmopolitan sensibilities, and new imperial frontiers
Nomadic and diasporic life under empire
Development, nationalism, and new topographies of power
The creation of homeland and the domestication of the nation-state
The criminalization of Somali networks and the silencing of alternative nationalisms
The globalization of diaspora, the ambivalence of statelessness, and the quest for minority rights
From a greater Somalia to a global Somalia.

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