Forging African Communities

1. Introduction: Forging a Study of Mobility, Integration and Belonging in Africa
Loren B. Landau, Oliver Bakewell

Part I. Agents of Integration: Decentring Policy and the State

2. “We Are Like a Bat. We Are Neither Birds Nor Animals”: Where the Formal and Informal Collide as Burundian Refugees in Tanzania Struggle for Belonging
Lucy Hovil

3. Integration from the Beach: Insights from the Experiences of Artisanal Fishing Immigrants in Pointe-Noire City, Congo-Brazzaville
Gabriel Tati

4. The Moroccan Moment and Communities of Itinerants: Mobility and Belonging in the Transnational Trajectories of Sub-Saharan Migrants
Johara Berriane

5. Negotiating a Space of Belonging: A Case Study from the Zambia-Angolan Borderlands
Oliver Bakewell

Part II. Negotiating Scales and Spaces of Belonging

6. Tactical Creolization and the Production of Belonging in Migrant Pentecostal Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Peter Kankonde Bukasa

7. Catechism, Commerce and Categories: Nigerian Male Migrant Traders in Harare
Pedzisayi Leslie Mangezvo

8. Social Capital, Spatial Conquests and Migrants’ Social Mixity: Nigerians and Chinese in Lubumbashi, DRC
Germain Tshibambe Ngoie

9. “We Are All Ugandans”: In Search of Belonging in Kampala’s Urban Space
Naluwembe Binaisa

Part III. Emergent Socialities and Subjectivities

10. “The Friends of Our Friends Are Our Friends”: Determinants of Hosts’ Contact with International Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Steven Lawrence Gordon

11. Pentecostalism and a Global Community of Sentiment: The Cases of Nigerian and Congolese Pastors in Diaspora
Rafael Cazarin

12. Shallow Solidarities: Space and Socialities of Accommodation and Exclusion in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Loren B. Landau, Iriann Freemantle

13. Afterword: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in African Societies
Robin Cohen

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Migration, Diaspora, Development and Social Change, African Politics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)