Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes

Evidence from Lusaka and Kampala

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147193
AutoresOliver Bakewell (0000-0002-0904-7134, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia), Naluwembe Binaisa (0000-0003-4650-9972, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science)
Año2016
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas280-300
Fecha de publicación2016-01-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1105994
OpenAlexW2201670724
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas35

The transnational movements of Africans within the continent are seldom conceptualised as leading to diasporic identifications and relationships. In stark contrast, the migration of Africans beyond the continent, which occurs on a smaller scale, is routinely associated with diaspora formation. Drawing on fieldwork with migrants from Anglophone and Francophone West Africa and the Horn of Africa living in Lusaka and Kampala, this paper explores whether their movements gives rise to the formation of diasporic connections that sustain and reproduce identifications with the place and people of origin, over distance and through generations. The analysis illustrates how different layers of 'origin' and 'destination' factors interact to reinforce or undermine diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes. The homeland where mobility is embedded in socio-economic relations that embrace transnational linkages may perpetuate connections. The conditions of urban life that impose pressures to remain outsiders may perpetuate exclusion and hinder integration

Diaspora · Ethnology · French horn · Geography · Homeland · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Transnationalism · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration